Sea urchin is sweet and cool in nature. Excessive consumption may cause diarrhea for people with cold body constitution. Generally, no more than two urchins should be consumed.

The nutritional value of sea urchin:

Dissipates stagnation, softens hardness, reduces swelling, resolves phlegm, softens and dissipates hardness, returns to the stomach meridian, relieves pain, returns to the kidney meridian, and returns to the liver meridian.

Sea urchins feed on their gonads, which are also called sea urchin eggs, sea urchin seeds, sea urchin yellow, and sea urchin paste. They are orange-yellow in color and delicious in taste, accounting for 8 to 15 of the total weight of the sea urchin. The main nutrients of sea urchin eggs are lecithin, protein, riboflavin, thiamine, fatty acids, etc. The fatty acids contained in sea urchin eggs have a good effect on preventing certain cardiovascular diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sea urchin eggs are salty and neutral in nature, and have the effects of softening and dispersing stagnation, resolving phlegm and reducing swelling.

Sea urchin shell is also a good medicinal material. It tastes salty, has a neutral nature and is slightly poisonous. Liver; kidney; stomach meridian. Resolving phlegm and softening hardness; dispersing stagnation; producing antacid and relieving pain. Mainly caused by scrofula, phlegm core, asthma, callus rib swelling and pain, and stomachache.