What are the effects of umeboshi and how to consume it?

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 ascaris lumbricoides.
Usage and dosage] 6-12g.
Storage: Keep in a cool and dry place, protected from moisture.
The common effects of umeboshi
2.1 Inhibitory effect of umeboshi and its preparations on a variety of bacteria in vitro inhibition of gram-positive bacteria staphylococcus aureus and gram-negative bacteria 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 the mouse cough suppressing effect, found that the core shell of ume, seed and net ume have obvious cough suppressing effect, and the core shell and the seed of the cough suppressing effect is stronger than the net ume, but ume pulp has no effect of cough suppressing, indicating that ume cough suppressing the effective parts of the kernel and the seed of the drug.
2.3 Sedative-hypnotic and anticonvulsant effects, Li Tongming et al. found that the decoction of umeboshi can significantly reduce the number of mice’s voluntary activities compared with saline (p<0.05), significantly shorten the time of suprathreshold dose of sodium pentobarbital to cause the mice to fall asleep, prolonging the duration of their sleep (p<0.05), and can significantly increase the number of mice sleeping in the subthreshold dose of sodium pentobarbital (p<0.05); umeboshi decoction of large dose groups [40% of the dose of the decoction of the decoction of the decoction of the decoction of the decoction of the decoction of umeboshi]. Liquid high-dose group [40g / (kg-d)] has a certain anticonvulsant effect.
2.4 Antiviral effects Guo Peng et al. found that the formula of 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, and the most important factor that affects the expression of HBsAg in HBV transgenic mice is the ratio of bitter ginseng and umeboshi.
2.5 Antitumor effects Wang Qiong et al. found that Ume plum and Huanglian compound can 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 effect 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 et al. found through experiments that the acidic components of ume extracts have a strong inhibitory effect on tyrosinase, a catalytic enzyme that affects melanin production, and the mechanism of its inhibition of melanin production is mainly through the influence of melanin synthesis, the reduction of ultraviolet light-promoted melanogenesis, and the modulation of nitric oxide synthase expression of melanocytes, thus blocking the expression of nitric oxide synthase, and thereby blocking the production of melanin. The mechanism of inhibiting melanin production is mainly through affecting melanin synthesis, reducing UV-promoted melanogenesis, and regulating the expression of nitric oxide synthase in melanocytes, thus blocking nitric oxide melanin signaling.
How to consume umeboshi
3.1 sweet potato and plum porridge method: sweet potato diced, 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 simmering to pay thick can be. Sweet potato is rich in nutrients, umeboshi sour appetizing, can stimulate the secretion of the 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 plum meat into the pot, water decoction 2 times, slagging juice half a big bowl, add brown sugar stew is completed.
3.3 pig intestines and plums scattered system: the first will be soaked in water plums, remove the core, filled with pig intestines (to fill to the extent), the two ends of the tie, dry, baked crispy, research powder. Each 5g, 3 times a day, fasting rice soup water delivery.
3.4 icing sugar ume system: ume 250g, add water to soak, boiled five ripe, fishing out 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 Umei Yu Pingfeng drink method: Umei 2, astragalus 10g, atractylodes 6g, Feng Feng 3g. will be four with boiling water, drink tea.