According to the pharmacopoeia

This product is the dried nearly mature fruit of Prunus mume (Sieb.) Sieb. et Zucc. in the family of Rosaceae. The fruit is harvested in summer when nearly ripe, dried at low temperature and smothered until the color turns black.

The product is spherical or oblate, 1.5-3cm in diameter, black or brownish-black on the surface, wrinkled and uneven, with rounded pedicel marks at the base. The kernel is hard, ellipsoid, brownish-yellow, with pits on the surface; the seeds are flat-ovate, light yellow. Gas slightly, taste very sour.

[Sexual Flavor and Attributive] Sour, astringent, and flat. Attributed to the liver, spleen, lung and large intestine meridians.

Functions and Indications] Astringing the lungs, astringing the intestines, generating fluids, and tranquilizing roundworms. It is used for prolonged cough due to lung deficiency, prolonged diarrhea and dysentery, deficiency heat and thirst, vomiting and abdominal pain due to ascariasis.

Usage and dosage ] 6-12g.

Storage: Keep in a cool and dry place, protected from moisture.

The common efficacy of umeboshi

2.1 Bacteria inhibition
Ume and its preparations have in vitro inhibitory effect on a variety of bacteria, Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus and Gram-negative Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Candida albicans and other inhibitory effect to varying degrees.

2.2 Cough suppressing effect
Chen Lin et al. through in vivo experiments to observe the effect of various parts of ume on mice cough suppressant effect, found that ume’s kernel shells, seed kernels and net ume have obvious cough suppressant effect, and the kernel shells and seed kernels of the cough suppressant effect is stronger than the net ume, but ume pulp has no effect of cough suppressant, suggesting that ume suppresses the cough of the effective part of the drug is the kernel shells and seed kernels.

2.3 Sedative-hypnotic and anticonvulsant effects
Lai Tongming et al. found that the decoction of ume can significantly reduce the voluntary activity of mice compared with saline (p<0.05), significantly shorten the time of sleep of mice caused by suprathreshold dose of sodium pentobarbital, prolong the duration of sleep (p<0.05), and can significantly increase the number of mice sleeping with suprathreshold dose of sodium pentobarbital (p<0.05); ume decoction of high-dose group [40g / (kg)]. -d)] has certain anticonvulsant effect.

2.4 Antiviral effects
Guo Peng et al. found that bitter ginseng and umeboshi soup with the ratio of bitter ginseng and umeboshi 1:1 (m:m) could significantly reduce the expression of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) in the serum of hepatitis B virus (HBV) transgenic mice, in which the most important factor affecting the expression of HBsAg in HBV transgenic mice was the ratio of bitter ginseng and umeboshi.

2.5 Anti-tumor effects
Wang Qiong et al. found that Ume plum and Rhizoma Coptidis compound formula could significantly induce apoptosis of human colon cancer HT29 cells, cause G2/M phase blockage of HT29 cells, and inhibit the tumor cell cyclooxygenase 2 pathway to inhibit the proliferation and migration of human colon cancer HT29 cells.

2.6 Antioxidant effects
Song Ziyu et al. summarized the literature and found that ume in the treatment of liver disease may be associated with accelerating the removal of strongly oxidizing peroxynitrite, reducing peroxidative damage, and stabilizing the mitochondrial membrane.

2.7 Melanin inhibition
Zhang Liping and other experiments have found that the acidic extract of ume has a strong inhibitory effect on tyrosinase, a catalytic enzyme that affects melanin production, and its mechanism of inhibition of melanin production is mainly by affecting melanin synthesis, reducing ultraviolet light-promoted melanogenesis, and regulating the expression of nitric oxide synthase in melanocytes, thus blocking the nitric oxide melanin signaling. Nitric oxide melanin signaling.

How to consume umeboshi

3.1 Sweet Potato and Plum Porridge
Preparation: sweet potato cut into cubes, after mourning water ready to use, the plum meat washed and cut into small pieces. And then the round-grained rice after washing first steamed for 10 minutes, and then steamed round-grained rice, sweet potatoes and plum meat together with boiled to pay thick can be. Sweet potato is rich in nutrients, umeboshi sour appetizing, can stimulate the secretion of people’s salivary glands, enhance appetite, can be said to protect the stomach and intestines of the health porridge.

3.2 plum sugar water
Method: 1.5g of umeboshi meat into the pot, water decoction 2 times, slagging juice half a big bowl, add brown sugar stew is ready.

3.3 Ume plum pig intestine scattered
Method: the first to soak the plum with water, remove the core, fill the pig intestine (to fill to the degree), the two ends of the tie, dry, baked crisp, research powder. Each 5g, 3 times a day, fasting rice soup water delivery.

3.4 Ice sugar umeboshi
Method: 250g of umeboshi, soak in water, boiled five mature, fishing out of the nucleus, pulp dicing, into the original liquid. Add rock sugar 250g, cook until the collection of juice, after cooling, and then dipped in a layer of sugar, feel free to eat.

3.5 Umeboshi Yubingfeng Drink
Preparation: 2 umeboshi, astragalus 10g, atractylodes 6g, fengfeng 3g. 4 with boiling water, drink tea.