Source : For. Latin Botanical and Animal Mineral Name : Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson Harvesting and Storage : Crack the end of the egg shell so that the egg white flows out and collect it for raw use, or boil the egg and take the white for use. Original form Domestic fowl, poultry. Beak short and firm, slightly conical, upper beak slightly curved. Nostrils fissured, covered with scalelike flaps. Eyes with transient membrane. Head with a fleshy crown, and fleshy droops on either side of the throat, usually of a maroon color; the fleshy crown is taller in males and smaller in females; the fleshy droops are also larger in males. Wings short; plumage coloration differs between females and males, with males having more beautiful plumage and long, bright tail feathers, and females having very short tail feathers. Feet robust, tarsus, metatarsus and toes covered with scaly plates; toes 4, 3 toes anterior, 1 posterior, posterior toes shorter, slightly higher, males tarsus and metatarsus spurred posteriorly. Synonyms Chicken Egg White ("Bie Lu"), Chicken Zi Qing ("Food Therapy Materia Medica"), Egg White. Latin name Gallus gallus domesticusBrissonEnglish name Egg whiteChemical composition of chicken white at least 3 layers, the outer layer and the inner layer are relatively thin, the middle layer accounts for about 65% of the whole chicken white, because of which contains about 0.3% of the fibrous mucin (mucin), it is sticky, and inside and outside of the 2 layer contains very little such mucin. Each 100g contains protein (protern) 10g, fat (fat) 0.1g, carbohydrates (carbohydrate) 1g, ash (ash) 0.6g; calcium 19mg, phosphorus 16mg, iron 0.3mg, riboflavin (riboflavin) 0.26mg, nicotinic acid (nicotinic acid) 0.1mg, thiamin (thiamin) 0.1mg, niacin (niacin) 0.1mg. mg, thiamine (thiamine) 0.216 mg / g, pantothenic acid (pantothenic acid) μg / g, p-aminobenzoic acid (p-aminobenzoic acid) 0.055 (dry egg white) μg / g, according to the proportion of water and solids, the water content of 87%, 13% of the solids; solids in about 90% are About 90% of the solids are proteins, of which: ovalbumin (ovalbumin) 75%, ovalbumin (ovomucoid) 15%, ovalbumin (ovomucin) 7%, and conalbumin (conalbumin) 3%. Ovalbumin is a phosphorus-containing protein containing 1.7% mannose. Egg-like mucin contains 9.2% mixed sugars, consisting of 3 parts mannose and 1 part galactose. Egg mucin contains 14.9% mixed sugars, with equal amounts of mannose and galactose. Accompanying albumen contains 2.8% mixed sugars, with 3 parts mannose and 1 part galactose. Whole chicken subalbumin also contains about 0.4% free glucose. Ovomucoid is a mixture of lysozy-me, ovoinhibitor, ovomucoid, ovoglycoprotein, and ovoflavo-protein. Chicken seeds white containing lipids (lipid) is very little, but there are traces of fat (fat), traces of lecithin (lecithin), cholesterol (cholesterol) and fat-soluble pigment lutein (lutein). The protein of chicken white is nutritionally excellent because it contains all the essential amino acids (essential amino acid). Taste and odor: sweet; cool (1) "Bielu": slightly cold. ② "Compendium": sweet, slightly cold, non-toxic. Attributed to the lung; spleen meridian function and main treatment to moisturize the lung and benefit the pharynx, clearing heat and detoxification. Treatment of sore throat, eye redness, coughing, lower meat, malaria, burns, fever, swelling and pain. (1) "Beilu": treating heat and pain in the eyes, removing ambient heat under the heart, stopping the annoyance and fullness of coughing, pediatric ejaculation, women's difficult labor, and non-expression of the uterine clothing. Vinegar one overnight, treatment of jaundice, breaking the big annoying heat. ② Monk: fever and poisonous hair, can take three chicken seeds white and honey a combination of service. ③ "Gleanings of Materia Medica": to relieve fever. (4) "Compendium": and red bean powder coated with all the heat poisoning, Dan swelling, cheek pain. ⑤ 《Benjing Fengyuan》：To treat sore throat. Usage and Dosage: Take 1-3 pieces raw or boiled, or mix with medicinal juice. External use: Appropriate amount, apply. Cautions and Taboos 《食疗本草》："Moving heart qi. It should not be eaten in excess." Treatment of Shaoyin disease, sores in the pharynx, unable to speak, the voice does not come out: half-summers (washed, broken as a jujube kernel) fourteen, a chicken (open the hole to remove the yellow). Half-summer in bitter wine, chicken shells on the fire, so that three boiling, remove the dregs. If the disease does not go away, take three more doses. ("Typhoid Fever" bitter wine soup) ② treatment of eye storm red heat poisoning: lemonade a point (pounded into a paste), Wu Huanglian a point, chicken white a. The above three flavors, wrapped in cotton, a two-part package of bitter wine. The above three flavors, wrapped in cotton two flavors within the chicken in the white, impregnated overnight, coated with eye four, five degrees, thick is washed. (Monk's "Effective Formula") ③ For children over one year of age and under two years of age, red and white dysentery for a long time: two chicken seeds (white), two dollars of hu powder, one or two pieces of wax. The above three flavors, boiled wax elimination, under the chicken, Hu powder, wait into the cake. Eat it on an empty stomach in the morning, for three times. (Monk's "Effective Formula": Chicken Cake) ④ For the treatment of burnt and poured soup and fire, ulcerated flesh and pain: wash with chicken and good wine. ("Sea Fang") ⑤ treatment of postpartum blood dizziness, body spasm straight, wear eyes, the corner of the mouth and the outer canthus of the eye upward pull anxious, do not know the person: chicken seeds, remove the shell and divided into clear, to Jingwuzhi two money to mix the service. ("Derivation of the Materia Medica") (6) Treatment of post-partum blood closure: one chicken seed, open it up and take the white color, and then add vinegar as half of the white color, stir it and swallow it. ("Gleanings of the Materia Medica") 1. "The Materia Medica Siyuan Lu": "This scripture", the phrase "egg white, stopping pediatric ejaculation" is the most appropriate to understand. The pediatric heat leakage, only to the gas clear slightly cold ovalbumin treatment is effective, if the husband is suitable for bitter cold carry forward. If the treatment of ejaculation do not know that there is heat congestion of the meridians and tunnels, water and grain can not be converted into red and straight to the large intestine, all engaged in light seepage of warm and dry, read this can not be confused. 2. "Famous Doctor Bieji": treatment of eye heat and red pain, in addition to the heart of the ambient heat, to stop boredom full of coughing, pediatric ejaculation, women have difficulty in giving birth to a woman, not out of the cellular clothing. Acid impregnated one of the night, jaundice, broken large annoying heat.3. Monk: heat poison hair, can take three chicken seeds white and honey a combination of service.4. "Gleanings of the Materia Medica": relief of heat annoyance.4. "Compendium of Materia Medica": and the end of the red beans coated with all the heat and poison, dan swelling, parotid pain.5.6. "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": the treatment of sore throat.