The spring color will be out, the warblers will grow older, and the red ying will fall to the green plum. Now is the season when ome is on the market, the seasonal cycle of ome is very short, and it is not suitable for raw eating, the taste is very sour and a little astringent, so people will take ome to make a variety of delicacies, such as ome wine, plum, crisp plum, sour plum, Ume and so on. Among them, Wumei is a traditional Chinese medicine and one of the medicinal herbs used to make sour plum soup. Now many restaurants will replace tea with sour plum juice to relieve grease and consume food.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao lost the road with water source on his march, and the soldiers were all very thirsty because of the fatigue of the road and the scorching sun. Cao Cao thought to himself, where can there be combat effectiveness in this way? So he had a stroke of genius and ordered, "There is a plum forest in front of us, the fruit is very rich, and it is sour and sweet to quench our thirst." When the soldier heard about it, he immediately had saliva out of his mouth and his energy doubled. Cao Cao took advantage of this opportunity to lead his troops to the front and found a way with water.
Ume
【Source】This product is the dried near-ripe fruit of the rose family plum. The fruits are harvested near maturity in summer, dried at low temperatures until they turn black.
【Sexual Taste and Attribution】Sour, astringent, flat. It belongs to the liver, spleen, lungs, and large intestine meridian.
【Functional features】Lung, astringent intestine, raw jin, annunciation. This product can be astringent, the sex is not biased, not only into the liver, spleen meridian, but also into the lungs and large intestine meridian. The upper can collect lung qi to relieve cough, the lower can astringent large intestine to stop diarrhea, and can converge to stop bleeding. And because of the sour taste, good and good, raw.
Ume is very useful!
Thirst
Ume is sour, which stimulates saliva secretion and quenches thirst. It is commonly used to treat thirst and drinking in thirst quenching disease (diabetes), as well as fever thirst, dry throat, etc. In summer, you can use the Umei decoction as a drink to quench the heat and quench the thirst.
Increases appetite
Wumei can promote digestion, relieve boredom, promote saliva secretion, and increase appetite. Office workers are stressed, hot people are tired, too much thinking, etc. cause them to not think about eating, and it is a good choice to come to Wumei.
Cough
Wumei lung cough, can be used for lung weakness cough less phlegm or dry cough without sputum, often with half summer, almonds, etc., but empirical evidence should be used with caution.
Antidiarrheal
Wumei astringent intestinal antidiarrhea, can be used for spleen deficiency for long-term diarrhea, long-term diarrhea or large intestine slippery diarrhea, prolapse and no collection. Studies have shown that the treatment of nonspecific colitis with the addition and subtraction of wumei pills in the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" has obvious efficacy.
Prevent constipation
The catechin contained in Ume can promote intestinal peristalsis, and the constipation constitution is suitable for eating more. Wumei can not only relieve diarrhea, but also prevent constipation, which can be described as two-way regulation.
Stop morning sickness
Pregnant women's pregnancy reaction nausea and vomiting, can not eat, sour Ume can "breathe" to stop morning sickness, enhance appetite, pregnant women can eat it.
Anti-aging and anti-aging
The plum acid contained in Ume can soften blood vessels, delay arteriosclerosis, anti-aging and anti-aging. Wumei contains a variety of organic acids, which can enhance the detoxification function of the liver, and patients with liver disease should eat more.
Relieve alcohol, wake up, cure bad breath
The effect of Ume on the treatment of bad breath and hangovers is also very good, eating when drunk can help relieve alcohol, and when motion sickness can stop vomiting and cure dizziness.
Precautions
1. Those who have not solved the evil and the real heat accumulation should be served with caution;
2. People with cold and fever, cough and phlegm, chest and diaphragm should not eat;
3. Avoid eating in the early stage of dysentery and enteritis.
When eating too much ume and causing the teeth to be sore and soft, repeated chewing of walnut kernels can alleviate it.
Uchen Pu'er tea
【Ingredients】 Pu'er tea 10 g, tangerine peel 5 g, Wu Mei 5 g.
【Preparation method】 After washing the tangerine peel and wumei, the tangerine peel is cut and the wumei is cut open, and the Pu'er tea, tangerine peel and wumei are put into the teapot together, and boiling water is injected, and the first brewed tea is poured out, and the boiling water is re-injected, and the tea soup is filtered out to drink.
【Effect】Quench thirst, digest food and nourish the stomach. Suitable for people with dry mouth, dry mouth, loss of appetite and indigestion. ■
【Source: Department of Pharmacy, Shenzhen Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Author: Liang Fengjuan】