Speaking of traditional summer drinks, sour plum soup must have a place. This is a drink with a long history. The main ingredient of sour plum soup is dark plum. But why use ebony in summer? Maybe you don't understand, this is actually related to the medicinal properties of ebony.
Mume can clear away heat: Mume was first recorded in Shennong's Herbal Classic, which said: "Mume: purging qi, removing heat and removing annoyance". Mume has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat.
Mume is a well-known historical allusion that women and children look to plum to quench their thirst. It is said that when Cao Cao marched, he couldn't find water, and the army was very thirsty. Cao Cao shouted, "There is a piece of Merlin in front, which can quench his thirst." Hearing this, all the soldiers in the army spit in their mouths. In this way, the army rushed to the front and found water. So ebony can quench thirst since ancient times. Summer is the easiest time to get thirsty, so the salivation effect of ebony is suitable for health preservation in summer.
Mume can astringe lung qi, strengthen intestine and stop diarrhea: Mume tastes sour and can stop cough and stop diarrhea. Therefore, if people with lung deficiency often have a dry cough, and people who eat raw food in summer are prone to diarrhea, ebony is a very symptomatic medicine.
Zhu ebony paste
Everyone knows that dark plum can be made into sour plum soup. Rock sugar can be added to Mume Fructus, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Fructus Crataegi and Radix Glycyrrhizae. However, sour plum soup can't be preserved for a long time, and it is easy to deteriorate. If it is drunk for a long time, it will be less convenient. Therefore, Zhu's internal medicine used ebony paste instead of sour plum soup to relieve summer heat.
The paste itself is easy to preserve and not easy to deteriorate. In addition, the paste made by traditional technology is beneficial to preserve and enhance the drug performance. Of course, the ointment also has disadvantages, that is, it is time-consuming and laborious, and the production process is complicated and quite time-consuming.
However, since Zhu has the formula and production method of ebony paste, I will briefly introduce it for your understanding.
Formula and preparation method of dark plum paste
Different from the components of Sour Plum Soup, Sour Plum Ointment adds the flavor of the medicine on the original basis. Besides ebony, tangerine peel, hawthorn and licorice, Poria cocos, mint and osmanthus fragrans are also added.
First, all the medicinal materials are washed with clear water and soaked in clear water for 4 hours. Because it takes a long time to boil into ointment, a lot of water is needed.
Fry with strong fire for 30 minutes, then with low fire for 30 minutes, and then filter out the soup, which is the first soup for later use.
Then add water to the medicine, first decoct it with strong fire for 30 minutes, then decoct it with slow fire for 30 minutes, and filter out the medicine juice, which is the second decoction for later use.
Finally, add water to the medicine, first decoct it with strong fire for 30 minutes, then decoct it with slow fire for 30 minutes, and then filter out the medicine juice, which is the third decoction, and set it aside for use.
Mix the three kinds of soup together, put it on the gas and cook it slowly over medium heat, stirring constantly. The purpose of stirring is to prevent the soup from sticking to the bottom and cooking. When the medicine juice becomes thick, change the gas to minimum fire. At this time, it is time to collect the cream, which is very difficult for non-professionals to master. The cream collection is very particular, and the medicine juice should be concentrated to the thickest, but it can't be cooked. In fact, it is only about 1 minute. There is a relatively intuitive standard, that is, successful medicine juice can be hung on a spoon and fall in a flag shape, which is called "hanging the flag" in Chinese medicine.
The so-called "hanging flag" means that the paste flows out of the spoon and forms an inverted triangle in the air, just like a small flag hanging on the spoon.
Mix the successfully collected ebony paste with a proper amount of honey, put it in a container, cool it and put it in a refrigerator.
When drinking, take out a proper amount of ebony cream with a clean spoon and rinse it with water, so that it will be convenient to eat in a summer, once and for all.
The descendants of Zhu's internal medicine have come to sum up again!
The key to the production of ebony paste is the final collection of paste, which is a traditional Chinese medicine production process. Ordinary people may need to try several times to understand "hanging the flag".
In addition to relieving summer heat, Wu Mei ointment can actually treat polyps, such as intestinal polyps, and has antiallergic effects, such as allergic rhinitis. Of course, if this situation needs to be considered, the formula of ebony paste needs to be adjusted accordingly.
Health needs to adapt to the weather, and the method is the most important. One person on each side is the biggest feature of Chinese medicine. Traditional technology is time-consuming and laborious, but the effect is really good. Before the summer is over, those who are interested can try to do it themselves and experience the fun of Chinese medicine.
Zhu's Internal Medicine originated in Shanghai 1907. The first generation of famous doctors, the second generation of Zhu Ruiqun, the first famous old Chinese doctor in Shanghai, the third generation of Zhu Weikang is currently the director of five departments of Oncology Department of Shanghai Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the fourth generation of Zhu and Xu Youchang are students.