The efficacy and effects of black plums

Everyone knows that plums are delicious fruits, but do you know the effects and functions of black plums ? Let me introduce them to you.

Black Plum Introduction

Plum, also known as plum, lishi, jiaqingzi, jiayingzi, is the fruit of the rosaceae plant plum, which matures in May and June and is yellow or purple-red. Plums are native to my country. Except for Xinjiang and Tibet, they are distributed all over the country. my country has cultivated them 3,000 years ago. The main varieties are rouge plum and peach plum. Rouge plum refers to its bright red color like rouge, commonly known as "daughter red", with large fruit, thick skin, tender flesh and sweet taste. Peach plum is bred by grafting peach and plum trees, hence the name "peach plum". The fruit is large and peach-shaped, green-yellow in color, thick in flesh and small in core, and sweet with sour taste.

Nutritional value of black plums

1. Promote digestion: Plums can promote the secretion of gastric acid and gastric digestive enzymes, and increase gastrointestinal motility. Therefore, eating plums can promote digestion and increase appetite. It is a good food therapy for those who lack gastric acid, feel full after eating, and have constipation.

2. Cleansing the liver and promoting diuresis: Fresh plum meat contains a variety of amino acids, such as glutamine, serine, glycine, proline, etc. Eating it raw is very beneficial for treating ascites caused by liver cirrhosis;

3. Blood pressure reduction, catharsis, and cough relief: Plum kernels contain amygdalin and a large amount of fatty oil. Pharmacological evidence shows that it has a significant diuretic and blood pressure reduction effect, can accelerate intestinal peristalsis, promote the discharge of dry stool, and also has the effect of relieving cough and expectoration.

The efficacy and effects of black plums

According to traditional Chinese medicine, plums are sweet and sour in taste and cool in nature. They have the effects of clearing away heat and promoting body fluid, purging the liver and clearing away heat, promoting blood circulation and detoxifying, and promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. They also have the effects of detoxifying alcohol and sobering up. They are suitable for treating symptoms such as insufficient stomach yin, thirst and dry throat, abdominal edema, and difficulty urinating.

Plums have a good maintenance effect on liver disease. Eating 3 plums a day has a very good effect on chronic hepatitis. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, once said when evaluating plums: "It is good for people with liver disease to eat it."

The vitamin B12 in plums can promote the regeneration of hemoglobin, and moderate consumption is very beneficial for people with anemia.

The effect of plums on beautifying the face is very unique. Regular consumption of fresh plums can make the face as smooth as jade. Rubbing the face with plum flowers can remove facial acne. Plum wine is known as "color-preserving wine" and is indeed a rare natural essence for modern beauty care.

Every 100 grams of edible part of plum contains 117.2 to 221.9 kilojoules of energy, 8.8 grams of sugar, 0.7 grams of protein, 0.25 grams of fat, 100-360 micrograms of provitamin A (carotene), 0.3 milligrams of niacin, more than 6 milligrams of calcium, 12 milligrams of phosphorus, 0.3 milligrams of iron, 130 milligrams of potassium, 2 to 7 milligrams of vitamin C, as well as other minerals, multiple amino acids, asparagine and cellulose.

Black plum is suitable for everyone

Plums can be eaten by most people, and are especially suitable for patients with liver disease, fever, and teachers and actors with hoarseness or loss of voice.

1. It is especially beneficial for people with fever, thirst, tuberculosis, ascites due to liver disease, teachers, actors with hoarseness or aphonia, chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis.

2. Plums contain high amounts of fruit acid. Eating too much will damage the spleen and stomach. Excessive consumption can easily cause stomach pain. Patients with ulcers and acute or chronic gastroenteritis should avoid eating plums.

3. Eating too much can easily cause phlegm and dampness, damage the spleen and stomach, and damage teeth. Therefore, people with spleen deficiency and phlegm and dampness and children should not eat too much.

Black plum dietary effects

Plums are mild in nature, sweet and sour in taste; they enter the liver and kidney meridians.

It has the effects of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, clearing the liver and removing heat, and promoting diuresis;

It is mainly used to treat symptoms such as yin deficiency and internal heat, bone steaming and tuberculosis, polydipsia, damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder, ascites, and difficulty urinating.

Black plum food

Eating plums with honey, sparrow meat, chicken, eggs, duck meat, and duck eggs will damage the five internal organs; do not eat plums with elk meat. (Quoted from "Dietary Tips")

Therapeutic value of black plums

The mature fruit of the plum tree of the Rosaceae family. It is also called plum fruit and Jiaqingzi fruit. It is cultivated in most parts of my country. It is harvested in summer, washed, pitted and used fresh, or dried.

[Properties] Sweet, sour, cool in nature. Can clear liver heat and produce body fluids.

[Reference] The nutritional value of plums is slightly lower than that of peaches. They contain sugar, trace amounts of protein, fat, carotene, vitamins B1, B2, C, niacin, calcium, phosphorus, iron, asparagine, glutamine, serine, glycine, proline, threonine, alanine and other ingredients. [Uses] It is used for liver deficiency with heat, consumptive disease and bone steaming; insufficient stomach yin and dry mouth.

[Usage] Eat raw, squeeze juice, or boil the dried product into soup.

[Additional prescription]

1. Fresh plum juice: 100-120g plums, remove the cores and mash them, squeeze out the juice, add a little honey and drink.

Originated from "Sui Xi Ju Diet". This product can clear the liver meridian heat, nourish the stomach yin and produce body fluid. It is used for insufficient stomach yin. In addition, it can also be used for people with insufficient qi and yin who are not adapted to the summer heat.

2. Color-preserving wine: squeeze out the juice from 250g fresh plums and mix it with 250ml rice wine. Take it in early summer, 1 small cup each time.

3. Originated from "Shuo Lin". The ancients believed that drinking plum juice wine in summer (Lixia) can make women look beautiful, so it is called beauty wine. It can be used for reference.

Diet therapy example: Take 2-3 fresh plums, soak them in vinegar and then boil them in water. Drink 20-50 ml of the soup each time, 3-4 times a day. It can be used as an auxiliary treatment for chronic uterine bleeding and menorrhagia.