Nutritional value of dark plum
Prunus mume is the immature fruit of Prunus mume in Rosaceae. Rich in citric acid, malic acid, succinic acid, sugar, sitosterol, vitamin C and other ingredients, it has ideal antibacterial effect. Mume juice tastes fragrant, sweet and sour, and can be drunk when you are upset, and it also has the effect of promoting fluid production and removing fire. It is a must-have drink in summer. Because ebony is rich in alcohol, vitamin E, vitamin B, vitamin C, malic acid, citric acid, iron and phosphorus. It is sour in taste and miscellaneous in nature, and has the effects of invigorating spleen, regulating stomach and nourishing liver and kidney.
1, ebony can play the role of detoxification. Adding perilla leaves to ebony can play a strong role in sterilization and detoxification. In addition, ebony also contains rich detoxification substance picric acid, which can affect gallbladder, promote bile excretion and play an anti-protein allergic role.
2. After strenuous exercise or hard work, a lot of metabolic wastes such as lactic acid have accumulated in human muscles, which makes people feel tired and weak. Mume can effectively distinguish lactic acid from fire-induced acid in muscle arrangement, thus eliminating fatigue, invigorating spirit and restoring brawn.
3. Mume is rich in fiber components, which has the function of moistening intestines and relaxing bowels. In addition, the tea acid in dark plum can also promote gastrointestinal activities, thus ensuring the unobstructed feces and avoiding the onset of constipation.
4. Mume can be used to treat the common symptoms of arm pain in the elderly. This is because arm pain is usually due to the lack of citric acid in the body, so lactic acid excreted in the body will cause body pain. Therefore, by eating dark plum, the elderly can avoid getting rid of the confusion of arm pain, because dark plum is rich in citric acid.
Efficacy and function of dark plum
(A) the efficacy of ebony
Mume is a homologous product of medicine and food, and it is one of the processed Chinese herbal medicines of Mume. The taste is sour, slightly astringent and insipid. Liver, spleen, lung, stomach and large intestine meridian. The quality is moist and astringent. Convergence, fluid production, tranquilization and insect repellent. Treat chronic cough, asthenic heat and polydipsia, chronic malaria, chronic diarrhea, dysentery, hematochezia, hematuria, bloody collapse, syncope, abdominal pain, vomiting, hookworm disease, psoriasis and pterygium.
1, astringing lung and relieving cough. Used for chronic cough and dry cough caused by lung qi deficiency.
2, diarrhea, diarrhea. Treat chronic diarrhea due to spleen deficiency.
3. quench your thirst. Mume can promote fluid production to quench thirst, and relieve thirst caused by deficiency heat and body fluid injury caused by fever.
4. An Zhen relieves pain. Treat gallbladder pain caused by ascaris lumbricoides.
5, "Life Fun Diet Spectrum" said: "Plum, sour and warm, warm gallbladder and fluid, pregnant mothers are more addicted to it." "The new edition of Materia Medica" mentioned that "ebony can stop dysentery and malaria, and it works quickly every time".
6, "Ben Jing": "Main qi, except heat annoyance, peace of mind, limb pain, dryness, muscle death, moles, rotten meat."
7, "Do not record": "Stop diarrhea, so thirsty." "Strong muscles and veins, get rid of paralysis."
(B) the role of ebony
Maintain the stomach
Mume has the function of disinfection and can also prevent food from deteriorating in the stomach.
stop bleeding
Fried charcoal with dark plum can treat hematochezia and metrorrhagia due to deficiency syndrome. To treat dysfunctional uterine bleeding, stir-fry Mume Fructus to 30g, and mix with Ginseng Radix, Poria, Fructus Chaenomelis, Halloysitum rubrum, Jade Jade Jade, etc. To treat hematuria and proteinuria caused by chronic glomerulonephritis for a long time, 6- 10g of ebony charcoal and 6-65438 g of cicada slough were added to the syndrome differentiation and treatment prescription, and remarkable curative effect was achieved, which was related to ebony's ability to help renal tubular epithelial cells proliferate and enhance the renal tubular ability to reabsorb fine substances.
Quench thirst and cough
The sour taste of dark plum can affect saliva excretion, promote fluid production and quench thirst. Often used to treat thirst (such as diabetes), fever, thirst, dry throat and so on. In summer, dark plum soup can be used as a drink to quench thirst. Mume tastes astringent and can astringe the lungs and relieve cough. It is used for chronic cough with little phlegm or dry cough without phlegm due to lung deficiency. It is often used with Pinellia ternata and Almond. However, empirical evidence should be used with caution.
anti-ageing
If you really want to enjoy a long life, you shouldn't be devastated by aging diseases. Eating dark plum will affect the secretion of parotid hormones and avoid aging. So from today on, eat an ebony every day.
Clearing blood
The food that modern people like to eat is nothing more than refined white cereal, refined white bread, refined white flour, refined white sugar, chemical seasonings, animal food and other refined foods. Eating these foods will lead to a sharp increase in toxins in the blood. After a long time, blood circulation will deteriorate and acid will be produced. Eating an ebony every day helps to clean blood, normalize blood flow and remove excess acid.
Pregnant women stop vomiting
Many pregnant mothers want to eat sour food instead of greasy food and sweets, which is a natural reaction. When a woman is pregnant, her blood is acidic, and the function and energy of her stomach and liver also decrease. When the body is sour, calcium will be lost, so some pregnant mothers' teeth will become loose, and some pregnant mothers' emotions will shake up and down. They advocate that pregnant mothers eat an ebony every day to reconcile.
Reduce/neutralize the influence of alcoholic beverages
Mume is also effective in treating bad breath and hangover. When celebrating the festival in high spirits, it is inevitable to drink more. When you wake up with a splitting headache, you can try to drink a cup of plum tea. The specific method is as follows: soak a dark plum in a cup of warm water for about 5 minutes, then take a teaspoon of tea and drink it gradually.
Replenish energy and eliminate fatigue.
When the blood is purified, the innovation will be enhanced, and the body will naturally regain its vitality. Citric acid in mume helps to absorb vitamins and enzymes, and can also avoid diseases and eliminate fatigue. When you feel tired, it's only because you have too much acid in your body. So when you get home from work in a traffic jam, you will feel exhausted. I suggest that you eat an ebony, and the fatigue will soon be eliminated.
Maintain digestive system
Mume has the function of disinfection and can also prevent food from deteriorating in the stomach.
eliminate constipation
Malic acid in dark plum introduces appropriate water into the large intestine to form feces and excrete them.
appetite
Long-term loss of appetite means that some organs of the body are not working well, because of stress and overeating, and because the functions of the liver, stomach and large intestine are not good, so the appetite is not good. You need to eat something if you want to recover quickly. What can help you regain your appetite is to eat an ebony every day.
stop diarrhea
Mume can astringe intestines to stop diarrhea and dysentery, and can be used for chronic diarrhea due to spleen deficiency or large intestine sliding diarrhea, or even proctoptosis. In recent years, Wu Mei Pill in Treatise on Febrile Diseases has been regarded as the basic prescription for treating nonspecific colitis, which has achieved remarkable curative effect.
Relieve pain
First, it can relieve abdominal pain. Ascaris acid will cause depression. Mume combined with asarum, Sichuan pepper, coptis root and aconite root can treat abdominal pain, vomiting and even limb cold caused by biliary tract or intestinal ascaris. Second, it can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis and relieve pain. Mume can soften bone spurs, improve blood circulation, relieve edema and treat heel pain. Take 200 grams of ebony, add 2000 ml of water, fry for 40 minutes, filter to remove residues, add 200 ml of vinegar, and soak the heel when the temperature of the liquid medicine is suitable, every night 1 time, each time about 1 hour (the liquid medicine can be heated repeatedly.
Effect on Ascaris lumbricoides
Mume can stimulate and influence the retreat of ascaris lumbricoides. For example, adding ebony decoction to the solution containing 1% physiological saline and 0. 1% sodium bicarbonate can enhance the activity of ascaris lumbricoides. Dogs were given 50g ebony soup through stomach tube, and their bile was collected. Under anaerobic conditions, ascaris lumbricoides was placed in a rubber tube with a diameter of 0.3-0.5cm, and the rubber tube was placed in a basin at 38℃, and the collected bile was dripped into the tube from the end of ascaris lumbricoides. The results showed that some ascaris lumbricoides retreated from the tube and some ascaris lumbricoides retreated from the tube. It is also reported that the hot water extracts of 223 kinds of traditional Chinese medicines were used for in vitro experiments to screen out drugs with the effect of killing intestinal worms, and it was found that dark plum was useful.
Biological effects of pathogens
In vitro experiments show that mume has inhibitory effects on many pathogenic bacteria, such as dysentery bacillus, Escherichia coli, typhoid bacillus, paratyphoid bacillus, pertussis bacillus and meningococcus. It also inhibits mycobacterium tuberculosis, which may be related to citric acid and malic acid. It also has inhibitory effect on some pathogenic fungi such as tinea pedis, epidermophyton floccosum and Microsporum gypseum.
Other influences
Mume has calcium antagonism, and has strong activity of antagonizing the shortening of colon band in guinea pigs caused by potassium ion. Its active ingredient has been separated as 5- hydroxymethyl -2- furfural. It has a slight shortening effect on oral Danwumei decoction. In vitro experiment, Mume has inhibitory effect on human cervical cancer JTC-26 strain, and the inhibitory rate is over 90%. The rose ring experiment in mice showed that dark plum could enhance immune function.
Side effects of ebony
1, Meng Wei: "Eating too much hurts teeth" and "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Spitting too much hurts bones, erodes the spleen and stomach, and makes people fever."
2, bacillary dysentery, enteritis pre-diet.
3. Women do not eat before and after normal holidays and pregnant mothers give birth.
4. Those who have not solved the evil are forbidden to take it; People who are really evil at heart should be careful.
5, people who have a cold and fever, cough, and chest tightness are not suitable for eating.
6. Compendium of Depei's Materia Medica: "Those who have malaria dysentery at the beginning are forbidden."
Taboo of ebony
It is forbidden to take it if the exterior evil is not solved, and it should be used with caution if there is real evil inside. It is not advisable to eat more.
Edible method of dark plum
Summer weather is hot, human metabolism is vigorous, and water shortage time is short, so timely hydration is a major event in summer. Besides boiled water, summer drinks made of mung beans, dark plums and hawthorn are also very popular.
Wu Mei soup
Ingredients: 3 pieces of ebony, 5 pieces of licorice, 5 pieces of roselle, 6 pieces of hawthorn, 6 pieces of dried tangerine peel, osmanthus fragrans 1 teaspoon, and appropriate amount of crystal sugar.
working methods
(1) Soak the main ingredients in cold water for a while, and then rinse and drain them with a strainer.
(2) The soup pot is filled with water and put into the main ingredients.
(3) After the fire boils, turn to low heat and continue to cook for 2 hours.
(4) Take part in the sweet-scented osmanthus cooking for an instant, turn off the fire and add rock sugar.
(5) cooling, filtering, pouring into a container and putting into a refrigerator.
Mume tea
Information: 5 grams of roses, 3 ebony, 2 tablespoons of honey.
working methods
(1) Ebony is washed with cold water first, and then put into the teapot with roses.
(2) Pour boiling water into the teapot and cover it for 5 minutes. When the water temperature drops below 50℃, add honey and stir well.
Mume juice
Information: Wu Mei.
working methods
(1) Wash 10 slices of wild ebony with water, put them in a soup pot, add 3/4 water, and boil them over high fire.
(2) After the big party, simmer with low fire until the soup is dark brown and bright, and the plum meat melts. [Water can be added repeatedly if there is not enough water]
(3) Boil the soup to 65,438+0 liters of concentrated juice, add a little rock sugar to taste, and pay attention to the taste should be mainly acid.
(4) Turn off the fire and let it cool.
(5) filtering and bottling the concentrated juice, and putting it into a refrigerating room for refrigeration. [It can be done with filter paper and funnel, even if it is not elegant. ]
(6) When drinking, it can be diluted according to the ratio of concentrated juice: ice water = 1:4 or 1:3, and then added with honey to taste and drink.
Ginger tea and dark plum porridge
Ingredients: ginger 10g, ebony meat 30g, green tea 5g, japonica rice 50g and brown sugar.
Practice: fry the first three flavors, take juice to remove residue, add japonica rice to cook porridge, and add brown sugar when porridge is cooked.
Iced tremella sour plum soup
Materials: ebony 100g, tremella 30g, hawthorn slices 40g, dried tangerine peel 80g, rock sugar 5g.
working methods
(1) All data are ready.
(2) Tear the tremella fuciformis into small flowers, and soak the three pieces of ebony, hawthorn and dried tangerine peel in water after cleaning.
(3) Wash in minutes.
(4) First, put the washed ebony, hawthorn slices and dried tangerine peel into a soup pot.
(5) Add rock sugar.
(6) Add enough water to the soup pot.
(7) Add tremella again.
(8) Heat the soup pot with strong fire to make the water in the pot exult, cover the pot and turn it to low heat for 2 hours, take out the hawthorn slices, dark plum and dried tangerine peel, let it stand and cool, and put it in the refrigerator for more than 3 hours before drinking.
Wu Mei sweet and sour pork chop
Ingredients: ribs 250g, ebony 10, sugar 30g, vinegar 20ml, soy sauce 20ml, cooking wine 20ml, red yeast 50g, cinnamon 1, star anise 2, nutmeg 1, fragrant leaves 3, pepper 1g and rock sugar 30g.
working methods
(1) Please soak the ebony in hot water for half an hour in advance.
(2) Monascus rice can be used for coloring. Put Redmi in a large bowl and soak it in proper water. The amount of water can be used to stew ribs.
(3) soak for 20-30 minutes. When the soup turns red, it can be filtered with a sieve to remove solids and leave liquid.
(4) Add enough cold water to the pot, and add the ribs, onion ginger, fragrant leaves and cooking wine to boil together.
(5) Remove the foam from the cooked ribs, and take them out and drain them for later use.
(6) Heat the pan, add a little oil, add sugar, and simmer until caramel color.
(7) Add ribs and stir well, and add 10ml cooking wine, soy sauce and white vinegar. Add geranium, star anise, cinnamon, nutmeg and onion ginger.
(8) Take a proper amount of water to soak the red rice, and gently skip the ribs.
(9) Add rock sugar.
(10) Add the soaked ebony.
(1 1) After the fire boils, turn to low heat and stew for 40 minutes.
(12) Open the lid, and when you see that the soup juice is reduced, you can collect the juice by fire.
Conclusion: After reading this article, I have a good understanding of the nutritional value, efficacy and function of ebony, and it is also very beneficial to my health if I eat it regularly. It can not only make up the nutrition needed by the body, but also treat some physiological diseases and improve the function of the body.