Plum is the fruit of the plum tree, but plums are often considered to be another kind of plum. Plum is a genus of apricot in the family Rosaceae
(Sieb.) Botanically also known as green plum, plum and sour plum. It is native to the subtropical zone and is a specialty fruit tree.
Plum taste sweet and flat, large fruit, thin skin, glossy, thick flesh, small core, crisp, juicy, high acidity, rich in a variety of amino acids required by the human body, acid with a sweet taste. It is known as the “king of cold fruits” and “natural green health food”.
Plums are native to the south and have been cultivated for more than 3,000 years. There are many varieties, both as ornamental trees and fruit trees. Many varieties can be cultivated not only as ornamental trees in the open air, but also as potted flowers, making piles of plums. The flowers can be extracted and the flowers, leaves, roots and seeds can be used as medicine. The fruit can be eaten, pickled or dried, or smoked as a medicine to make umeboshi. It has the ability to stop coughing, diarrhea, and to quench thirst. Plum is also resistant to rootworm damage and can be used as a rootstock for drupe trees.
Small tree, sparse shrub, 4-10 m high. bark light gray or greenish, smooth. Branchlets green, smooth, hairless. Leaves ovate or elliptic, 4-8 cm long, 2.5-5 cm wide, apex and caudate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, leaf margin often with small sharp serrations, gray-green, pubescent on both sides when young, gradually deciduous when growing, or only pubescent between the axils of the lower veins. Petiole 1-2 cm long, hairy when young, falling off with age, usually glandular.
Flowers solitary or sometimes two flowers from one bud, 2-2.5 cm in diameter, strongly scented, opening before the leaves. Pedicel short, about 1-3 mm long, usually hairless. The calyx is usually red-brown, but some species have green or greenish-purple calyxes. The calyx tube is broadly campanulate, glabrous or sometimes pubescent. Sepals ovate or suborbicular, apex blunt. Petals obovate, white to pink. Stamens short or slightly longer than petals. Ovary densely pilose, style short or slightly longer than stamens.
Fruit subglobose, 2-3 cm in diameter, yellow or greenish white, pilose, acidic. Pulp and core. The nucleus is ellipsoidal with a rounded top and a small projection at the apex, gradually shrinking to a cuneate base, slightly flattened on both sides, slightly blunt on the ventral edge, with obvious longitudinal grooves on the ventral and dorsal edges, and with honeycomb pores on the surface. It flowers in winter and spring, and the fruiting period is from May to June (in the north, the fruiting period extends to July and August).
Method 1
Ingredients.
1. Recipe: Green plums (medium-ripe), rock sugar or honey, malt powder, yellow wine or Pao Gu wine.
2. Proportions: 100 pounds of 45-degree yellow wine or Bao Gu wine, 25-35 pounds of plums, 22-25 pounds of rock sugar or honey, and 4 taels of malt powder. (If the raw materials are less or more, you can calculate according to a certain ratio, the ratio should not vary too much, otherwise the quality of wine is not stable and the quality of plum wine may not be very good)
Operation.
1、Wash the plum, fully dried.
2、Put the plums, rock sugar or honey into a sterilized earthen altar (followed by a glass altar), and then pour in 45 degree yellow wine or Bao Gu wine to seal it.
3、After 4 months, you can open and drink it.
4、Add sugar and honey at a time, and finally add malt powder.
5、After opening, use a shovel to mix and seal the plastic products (not iron or copper and aluminum products, which may oxidize and affect the quality of the wine), and then let it sink (about 36 hours).
Plum wine jars
Open the seal and place a cotton towel (must be pure cotton) over the mouth of another earthen altar. The mouth of the altar is solid and the neck of the altar is tied with a rope. The wine is poured from the original earthen pot into the earthen pot with a plastic spoon (not iron or aluminum, which will oxidize and affect the quality of the wine) and wrapped with a cotton towel (the towel is mainly used to filter the fibers of the plum pulp and heavy objects).
After filtering, the wine is sealed and left to stand for about 36 hours. Open the jar and take out the delicious plum wine that is crystal clear, sweet and refreshing. Remember to take out some of the wine and if there is any leftover wine in the jar, you must reseal it, otherwise, the quality of the wine will be greatly reduced. If sealed, the longer you leave it, the better the quality of the wine will be.
Method 2
Natural fermented plum wine
[2] Ingredients: 7 kg of ripe green plums, 10 kg of plum honey, 5 kg of sugar, 5 kg of filtered water, 2 taels of forged oysters or 40 g of calcium carbonate. Operation.
1. Gently rinse the plums with water once. Then install a bamboo sieve and place in a cool, ventilated place for 8 days (about 3-4 days).
2. Put them into a clean kimchi jar, put the forged oysters in the bottom, then add the plums, honey and filtered water.
3. Ferment for 4-5 days at about 30°C. Add 2 kg of sugar for the first time.
4. After 1 week of continuous fermentation, add 2 kg of sugar for the second time.
5. After 2 weeks of fermentation, add 1 kg of sugar.
6、Transfer to indoor temperature below 30℃, continue fermentation and aging for 3 months, then open the lid and bottle for drinking.
Note: All ingredients should not occupy more than 80% of the capacity of the jar. During the fermentation process, the liquid in the jar will swell and overflow.
Characteristics】With pure plum honey as the key difficulty, it solves the technical problem that the plum is too acidic to start the fermentation, which not only solves the fermentation problem, but also increases the flavor and nutritional value of plum wine. There is no need to fool consumers with plums soaked in white wine. When you feel tired or lazy in the summer, a glass of cold plum wine can drive away boredom and clear your head.
Plum wine has the following functions.
1.
Plum wine is also effective against enteric pathogens such as Escherichia coli, Shigella sonnei, Bacillus deformans, typhoid and paratyphoid, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Vibrio cholerae. Its ethanol extract has obvious antibacterial effect on some Gram-positive bacteria, negative bacteria and human Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Ume plum soup has an inhibitory effect on pathogenic skin fungi such as tinea cruris, tinea floccosa and Bacillus cereus in the test tube.
2. Plum wine has anti-protein allergy effects.
3. Plum wine can promote bile secretion. Plum wine can shrink the gallbladder and promote bile secretion and excretion. It is a good medicine for the treatment of biliary tract roundworms.
4、Ume wine has the effect of cooling, relieving summer heat and promoting the production of body fluid
Plum wine has the effect of prolonging life.
Through the above introduction, we understand the efficacy and function of plum wine. There are many ways to maintain health in general. Friends who love to drink can maintain their health by drinking it, which is also a good choice. However, when we drink to stay healthy, we need to be careful not to drink too much, which can have certain side effects on the body.
The plum is warm, sweet and sour. It can be used for the spleen, stomach and liver. It has the effect of quenching thirst, harmonizing digestion, relieving alcohol, astringent intestines and stomach, and stopping bleeding. Indications: thirst, vomiting, hiccups, stomachache, loss of appetite, food accumulation, abdominal pain, alcoholism, diarrhea, dysentery, bleeding, headache, trauma, fractures, burns.
Plum wine for colds and diarrhea
This wine is very spicy and tastes sweet and spicy. It activates blood circulation, dispels wind and disperses cold. Therefore, Yangmei wine can be used to treat diarrhea caused by colds or acute diarrhea caused by non-bacterial infections. Director Cheng said that excessive consumption of cold drinks, cold food, rain or improper use of air conditioning can lead to diarrhea.
Diarrhea caused by a cold usually has no abdominal pain or mild abdominal pain, and the degree of diarrhea is relatively mild. A few times a day. The stool is thin and tasteless, no mucous, no blood in the stool, no fever, no history of unclean eating. However, if you still have diarrhea after taking Yangmei wine for 2-3 days, you should seek medical attention in a timely manner.
Infectious diarrhea should not drink Yangmei wine.
Through the above introduction, we know that drinking plum wine can treat diarrhea, but not all diarrhea can be treated by drinking plum wine. It’s best to go to the hospital for a checkup after we have diarrhea. Don’t be careless at all times, it can lead to severe diarrhea.
