Traditional sour plum soup is made of dark plum, hawthorn, licorice, rock sugar and so on. The taste is sour and warm, and it has a good appetizing and digestion promoting effect. Eating too many greasy products, such as meat, can help digestion. More importantly, although sour plum soup tastes sour, it belongs to alkaline food, which can neutralize the acidity of body fluids and adjust the acid-base balance of human body. We often say that the sub-health state such as fatigue and fatigue is the result of the accumulation of acidic substances such as meat in the body, and it is necessary to rely on alkaline foods to balance the pH value in the body, and the dark plum and hawthorn in the sour plum soup are alkaline foods. Therefore, drinking some sour plum soup properly can help us relieve fatigue and restore physical strength.
Sour plum soup is especially suitable for people with liver fire. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sour taste into the liver can replenish liver yin and calm liver fire. Mume, the main component of Sour Plum Soup, is known as the "warrior of nourishing liver". Zhou Yan, a physician in the Qing Dynasty, pointed out in A Speculative Record of Materia Medica: "Plum blossoms bloom in winter and Shi Mei in early summer. Because it is full of wood gas and tastes sour, it is called liver medicine. " Especially when you drink too much, you might as well drink a cup of sour plum soup, which has a good effect of sobering up and protecting the liver.
Although Sour Plum Soup has many benefits, it is forbidden for those who have excess heat accumulated on the surface or in the disease, which is harmful to health. After Jia Baoyu was beaten by his father in A Dream of Red Mansions, he begged his grandmother, "Just cry and die of thirst and eat sour plum soup." Careful attacks people think that "sour plum soup is a convergent thing", Baoyu has just been beaten and his blood is stagnant, so he can't drink sour plum soup; In addition, sour plum soup can increase the concentration of gastric acid, so it is not suitable for patients with peptic ulcer and hyperacidity. Children's gastric mucosa is delicate and not suitable for long-term drinking.