Benefits of Plums

Plum

What are the effects and functions of plums? The effects and functions of plums: flat in nature, sweet and sour in taste; enter the liver and kidney meridians. It has the effects of promoting fluid and quenching thirst, clearing the liver and removing heat, and promoting diuresis. It is mainly used to treat yin deficiency and internal heat, bone steaming and tuberculosis, thirst and drinking, liver and gallbladder damp heat, ascites, and urinary problems.

The nutritional value of plums is slightly lower than that of peaches. They contain sugar, trace protein, fat, carotene, vitamins B1, B2, C, niacin, calcium, phosphorus, iron, asparagine, glutamine, serine, glycine, proline, threonine, alanine and other ingredients.

However, you should not eat too many plums. It is true that plums are harmful to the human body. Sun Simiao said: "Don't eat too much, it will make you weak." "Yunnan Materia Medica" states: "Don't eat too much, it will damage the spleen and stomach." "Sui Xi Ju Diet" also says: "Eating too much plums will cause phlegm, help dampness and cause malaria, and people with spleen deficiency should avoid it." In life, it is confirmed that eating too many plums can make people feel uncomfortable such as false heat and brain swelling. Plums that taste bitter and do not sink in water are poisonous and should not be eaten. Eating too many plums will cause phlegm and damage teeth. Patients with weak constitutions should eat less.

Benefits of Plums

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.

4. Take 4-8 fresh plums or plums soaked in vinegar, mash them, boil them in water and use them to wash the affected area. It has a certain effect in treating tinea corporis.