Plum is the fruit of plum tree! ! ! The flowering of plum trees will be mentioned below. . Yellow-ripe plums picked after mango seeds are used to make preserved plums, commonly known as Huangmei. After picking and washing Huangmei from the tree, put it in a vat and soak it in salt water, then take it out and dry it; After drying, rinse with clear water, and then dry; Then marinate with sugar, and then dry in the sun-so many times, it can be said that "ten steaming and nine drying, one plum in a few months", and finally become a plum with crisp meat and moderate sweetness and sourness. This kind of preserved plum can be preserved for several years without deterioration if it is well stored, moisture-proof and moth-proof. Plums are beneficial to people. First of all, they are widely used in medicine. Huang Yao has the habit of applying dried plums to his belly button when he has a headache; Also, the green plum juice is cooked and put into a bottle. Once you have a stomachache, dip it with chopsticks and it will relieve the pain. Some people also soak green plums in white wine, and after sealing for a month, it becomes a mellow and delicious green plum wine. Drinking a little plum wine at ordinary times can treat rheumatism, muscle pain, sprain and contusion and lumbar muscle strain. Li Shizhen wrote in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Plum is the fruit of blood separation, which can strengthen the stomach, astringe the lung, warm the spleen, stop bleeding and expectorate, reduce swelling and detoxify, promote fluid production and quench thirst, and treat chronic cough and diarrhea ..." Plum is also called plum. . . Prunus mume is a plant of Prunus mume in Dipterocarpaceae. Although the name has the word "plum", it has nothing to do with Prunus mume in Rosaceae. Prunus mume is a perennial deciduous fruit tree, and its producing areas include Chinese mainland, Taichung and Tainan. The fruit is edible. The allusion Cao Cao's "talking plum to quench thirst" is this plum [1]. Plum tea can relieve drunkenness. The book "Vanilla Beauty" of plum tree introduces many plants that can be used to protect health, treat and adjust physical condition. This print selects one section to introduce plum trees. The fruit of plum trees can be used to make dried plums and plum wine, so plums are known as "panacea". Prunus mume is a deciduous tree, which originated in China. It was introduced to Japan by monks from the State of Wu in the Nara period (710-794). The special products of the Central Plains introduced with it also included clothes decorated with plum blossom patterns, which later became popular in Kyoto and was called "Wu Fu". In February and March, the leaves of plum trees haven't had time to grow, but several five-petal flowers have been pulled out. The colors of flowers are mostly white, but also red and light red. Petals have single petals and double petals. At present, there are more than 300 horticultural varieties of plum blossom. The fruit is spherical with a groove on it. In the rainy season, the fruit turns yellow when it matures and tastes sour, so Zhan calls this season "plum season". People have attached great importance to the medicinal efficacy of plums since ancient times. There is a prescription named "Wumei Pill" in the ancient Chinese medicine book "Synopsis of the Golden Chamber" in China. This prescription is to steam immature plums, dry them and make them into pills, which have the effects of relieving fever, relieving cough and expelling worms. The unique Japanese "plum gravy" is a folk prescription developed on the basis of this prescription, which is very effective in treating diarrhea and indigestion. Dried plums are easier to make than plum gravy. After the middle edo period, the edible method of dyeing dried plums with perilla leaves began to be widely popular among the people. This dried plum can combine the antibacterial effect of plum with the sedative effect of perilla, which is a masterpiece of Japanese food culture. Plum contains special benign plant organic acids such as citric acid, pyruvic acid and succinic acid. Because organic acids are acidic, they can play an antibacterial role in the gastrointestinal tract. Acid will become alkaline before being absorbed by intestinal tract and transported to blood, thus improving blood circulation. Immature plum kernel contains toxic amygdalin, so there is a saying that "eating plum does not eat kernel, but there are gods in kernel". However, if plums are preserved with salt or soju for one month, the toxicity of amygdalin will gradually decompose and disappear. This is how prunes and plum wine are made. The oldest medical book in Japan, Yi Xin Fang, says that "Mei can cut off the three poisons". Three poisons refer to food, blood and water, that is to say, plums are very effective in treating food poisoning, heatstroke and diarrhea caused by drinking cold water. Later generations interpreted it as "plum can solve the worries of the day" in proverbs, which is also the reason why people like to drink plum wine in the hot summer. There are many folk therapies that use plums to treat diseases. For example, when you have a headache, you can stick prunes on your temples; People with tonsillitis can drink a little diluted plum gravy. In the past, housewives would be respected by others if they could do a good job. The Japanese invented the "Japanese pill lunch box" as a wonderful way to prevent the food from going bad. The vitality of plum trees is very tenacious. The more it is cut down, the more it keeps drilling out buds and pulling out branches. Therefore, Sheng Haizhou once wrote a poem in praise of this flower that bloomed in the cold wind: "Plum blossom, your strong branch, rather than bend!" "