Black Plum is the fruit of the Rosaceae plant Plum. Produced in most areas of our country. Harvest mature fruits between July and August, wash, remove the stones and use them fresh or dried in the sun. Full and round, exquisite and clear, beautiful in shape and sweet in taste, it is one of the traditional fruits that people like to eat. It can be eaten fresh or canned and preserved. It is one of the main fruits in summer.
nutritional value
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, which can cause gastric achlorhydria, fullness after eating, and constipation. constipate A good dietary supplement for those who have knots;
2. Clear liver and diuretic: Fresh plum meat contains a variety of amino acids, such as glutamine, serine, glycine, proline, etc. Raw consumption is very beneficial in treating cirrhosis and ascites;
3. Antihypertensive, cathartic, and antitussive: Plum kernels contain amygdalin and a large amount of fatty oil. Pharmacology has confirmed that it has significant diuretic and antihypertensive effects, can accelerate intestinal peristalsis, promote the discharge of dry stool, and also has the effect of relieving cough and eliminating phlegm;
4. Beauty and beautification "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that plum flowers and facial fat have a good beautification effect, which can "remove powder and dark spots", "make people look radiant", and have good effects on sweat spots, dark spots on the face, etc.
Edible effect
Plums are neutral in nature, sweet and sour in taste; enter the liver and kidney meridians.
It has the effects of producing body fluids and quenching thirst, clearing the liver and removing heat, and diuresis;
It is mainly used to treat diseases such as yin deficiency and internal heat, bone steaming and tuberculosis heat, quenching thirst and causing drinking, liver and gallbladder damp-heat, ascites, and difficulty in urination.
Applicable people
Can be consumed by the general population
1. People with fever, thirst, consumption, bone steaming, liver disease and ascites, teachers, actors with mute or aphonia, chronic hepatitis, and liver cirrhosis are especially suitable to consume.
2. Plums contain a high amount of fruit acid. Eating too much can damage the spleen and stomach. Excessive consumption can easily cause stomach pain. Patients with ulcers and acute and chronic gastroenteritis should not take it.
3. Eating too much can easily produce phlegm and dampness, damage the spleen and stomach, and damage teeth. Therefore, children with spleen deficiency and phlegm-dampness should not eat more.
