[Taste] Flat and sour.

【 Efficacy 】 Promote fluid production to quench thirst, stimulate appetite and astringent intestines, diminish inflammation and stop dysentery.

[Edible] Suitable for people with deficiency heat, thirst, loss of appetite, gastric acid deficiency (including atrophic gastritis and hypochlorhydria), dyspepsia, chronic dysentery, enteritis, etc. Suitable for pregnant women with poor pregnancy; Suitable for biliary ascaris. It is suitable for making sour plum soup with sugar in summer, which can cool and relieve summer heat, promote fluid production and quench thirst.

"Life Taste Diet Spectrum": "Plum, sour and warm, warm gallbladder and produce fluid, pregnant women are more addicted to it." The new edition of Materia Medica: "Mume can stop dysentery and malaria, and it works quickly every time."

[Do not eat] People who have a cold, fever, cough and phlegm, chest tightness and diaphragm do not eat; Avoid eating in the early stage of bacillary dysentery and enteritis. It is not suitable for women's normal menstrual period and pregnant women before and after delivery.

"Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Too many injured bones, spleen and stomach erosion, fever." "Materia Medica": "It is not advisable to eat more, and people with toothache and illness should avoid it." Depei Materia Medica: "Those who have malaria dysentery at the beginning are forbidden." "Resting Diet Spectrum": "Eating too much hurts teeth, producing phlegm helps fire. Anyone with phlegm, cough, furuncle, swelling, fullness and unclear exogenous sensation, women's menstrual period, prenatal and postpartum, and acne should not be avoided. " "Drug Meaning": "At the beginning of coughing, the breath is strong, shortness of breath, chest tightness and fear of acid are evil, so stop it."

【 Note 】 Mume is an immature fruit of Prunus mume or a mature fruit of Huangmei, which is smoked by fireworks. If the green plum is soaked in salt water at night, it will frost after 10, which is called hoarfrost plum. Its efficacy is similar and should be avoided. Modern research believes that plum or plum juice contains more potassium and less sodium, so it is suitable for those who need to take potassium-expelling diuretics for a long time; Plum blossoms containing catechuic acid can promote intestinal peristalsis, so people with constipation should eat them. Prunus mume contains a variety of organic acids, which can improve liver function and is suitable for patients with liver disease. Plumbic acid can soften blood vessels, delay arteriosclerosis and have anti-aging effect.