Sour plum soup is a common drink
What exactly is the effect?
Can I give it to my child?
What is the effect of sour plum soup?
Sour plum soup, also known as Wumei soup, can be said to be a classic Chinese medicine drink. Its main raw materials are plum, hawthorn, licorice, auxiliary materials include tangerine peel, osmanthus and rock sugar, and its main excipients are basically traditional Chinese medicine with the same origin as medicine and food.
Sour plum soup is not exclusive to summer and can be consumed all year round.
The doctor said: Sour plum soup can also play different effects by adding or subtracting some drugs.
For example, those who lose appetite caused by summer heat can add some malt and grain sprouts; If the symptoms of humid heat are severe, some lotus leaves can be added; Those with poor gas can add some roses; If you are seriously thirsty, you can add some mulberries, so that the sour plum soup cooked is darker.
Precautions for drinking sour plum soup
Everyone knows that iced sour plum soup is more refreshing to drink, but in fact, this is not a traditional drinking method, it is best to take it while it is warm, and it is also possible to drink it at room temperature, but it is not recommended to drink it cold.
It is worth noting that at room temperature, sour plum soup is easy to deteriorate, if you see fine foam floating on the surface, it means that it has deteriorated and cannot be drunk. If the sour plum soup cannot be drunk at one time, it is best to store it in the refrigerator.
Most of the sour plum soup drinks sold in the market have added sugar and other additives, which are slightly different from the sour plum soup prescribed by Chinese pharmacies. Relatively speaking, self-brewed sour plum soup is healthier.
However, if you want to go to a Chinese pharmacy to prescribe sour plum soup, it is best to have a face-to-face consultation, and the doctor will prescribe sour plum soup plus subtract according to the identification results of the patient's constitution.
Contraindications to drinking sour plum soup
Professional doctors remind: Sour plum soup is suitable for most people's daily health drinking, but it is highly acidic, should not be drunk too much, and not everyone can drink it.
The following groups of people should not drink sour plum soup ⬇⬇⬇ casually
▶ Children's gastric mucosa structure is weak, can not resist the continuous erosion of acidic substances, it is best to eat less sour plum food, otherwise it is easy to cause gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer over time.
▶ In addition to children, adults with cold spleen and stomach and easy diarrhea should not drink sour plum soup excessively. Patients with spleen and stomach deficiency are prone to abdominal pain and diarrhea when drinking sour plum soup.
▶ Cold and fever, cough with phlegm, feeling blocked chest and abdomen and avoiding food. Patients with colds are suitable to eat some foods that are easy to sweat, sour plum soup acid, drugs and foods that will hinder sweating, which is not conducive to the recovery of cold patients.
▶ People suffering from chickenpox, measles, hand, foot and mouth disease, diabetes and other foods should not eat. A large amount of sugar in sour plum soup can easily lead to an increase in blood sugar in diabetics.
Finally, a reminder to parents
Give your child a drink
It must be combined with its own reality
Especially Chinese medicine drinks
It should be judged according to the child's physique
Source: Capital Education
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