🌿 Egg
[Name] Egg, chicken egg, chicken yolk.
[Taste & Nature] Sweet, neutral.
[Meridian Affinity] Enters heart, spleen, stomach, and kidney meridians.
[Functions] Nourish heart and calm spirit, nourish yin, enrich blood, moisten dryness. Used for menstrual irregularities, reduced milk secretion, dizziness, night blindness, post-illness weakness, malnutrition, yin deficiency with lung dryness, cough with scanty phlegm, sore throat, palpitations, insomnia, and childhood convulsions.
[Composition] Protein, eight essential amino acids for humans, lecithin, triglycerides, cholesterol, yolk pigment, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamins (A, B2, B6, D, E), niacin, etc.
[Note] Cholesterol content in egg yolk is relatively high; individuals with hyperlipidemia should consume less.