It is the same, are edible umeboshi, only the supermarket umeboshi generally contain food additives to enhance the taste, the drugstore umeboshi is not added, but are edible, so there is not much difference. If it is used as a medicinal herb, or to the drugstore to buy, as a snack to the supermarket to buy can be.

It is important to note that umeboshi has astringent lungs, astringent intestines, raw fluid, the efficacy of an ascaris. Commonly used in lung deficiency, chronic cough, chronic diarrhea, chronic dysentery, deficiency heat and thirst, roundworm vomiting and abdominal pain, but should not be eaten for a long time. Ume is cultivated throughout China, but the provinces south of the Yangtze River Basin, the most, northern Jiangsu and southern Henan also has a few varieties, some varieties have been introduced in northern China successfully. Japan and North Korea also have.

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Ume medicinal properties:

Ume medicinal properties: spherical or compressed spherical, 1.5-3cm in diameter, the surface of the ebony black or brownish-black, wrinkled and uneven, the base of the fruit with a rounded pedicel scar. The kernel is hard, ellipsoid, brownish-yellow, with pits on the surface; the seeds are flat-ovate, light yellow. The odor is slight, and the taste is very sour.

Identification of medicinal properties: umeboshi: long for the production of fluids to quench thirst, astringent lung cough. Charcoal of Plum: It is used to stop bleeding by astringency and is often used for blood in stool, blood in urine, and blood in leakage.

Baidu Encyclopedia--Umei