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Scientific Name: Prunus Mume (Sieb) Sieb.Zucc. |
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Another Name: Plum, White Plum, Spring Plum, Meizai
(Hakka) |
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Family: deciduous arbor of roses family |
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Plum tree, with many branches, is a perennial
plant, whose bark is light gray or light green.
Growing single or double in white or pink color,
its flowers are aromatic. January and February is
its flower season. And its fruits can be divided
into green ripe fruits and yellow ripe fruits in
fruit season, March to May, depending on different
harvest period. Provinces in southwest of China
are their originally producing areas. Nowadays they
are planted all over the country, even in Japan.
Plum trees in Taiwan are mostly planted in central
part or west side of the Central Mountain with an
elevation of 300~1200 meter such as Taipei Yangming
Mountain, Nantou Shuili, Xinyi, Jiayi Plum Mountain,
Taidong East River, Taizhong Dongshi, Tainan Nanxi,
Gaoxiong Liugui and so on. |
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Roots, leaves, flowers, stalks and fruits of plums
can all be used as medicine. Having a mild property,
its fruits, sour and non-poisonous, with efficacy
of promoting salivation and quenching thirst, are
used centuries for medication and serve as a strong
alkaline food. According to the historical documentation,
plums can be used to treat chronic cough, chronic
malaria and protracted dysentery, dysentery, asthenia
heat, excessive thirst, lack of appetite, vomitus,
dyspepsia, hematochezia, hematuria, swelling and
sore throat. They could also relieve colic caused
by ascaris, repel roundworm, eliminate fatigue and
irritancy, and eliminate liquor poisoning. |
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The following are the 11 efficacies of plums according
to modern research and "Health Efficacy of
Plums"(China Medical School, Doctor Cai jinchuan): |
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Plums are strong alkaline
food. They promote balancing of acidity and alkalinity
of the blood to keep the body healthy and reducing
alkaline content. |
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Plums can help people
to improve weak body constitution and immunity. |
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Containing lemon acid,
plum products can combine efficaciously with calcium
absorption in intestines, and dissolve it to improve
the absorption of calcium. |
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According to the pharmacological
experiments, the fat contained in plum products
can restrain cell variation efficaciously so as
to prevent cancer. |
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Containing abundant lemon
acid, plum products can maintain normal metabolism
of energy and eliminate fatigue. |
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Strengthen liver. Containing
abundant organic acid, plum products can improve
liver function and help liver with detoxication
as with what people always said that plums can detoxify
body from food poisoning, blood poisoning and water
poisoning. According to the pharmacological experiments,
plum products can also prevent fat from accumulating
in blood vessel and liver. |
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Prevent calculus and stabilize
blood pressure. According to the animal experiments,
sour plum products contain abundant citric acid
to prevent kidney stone and bladder stone. |
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Containing abundant organic
acid, plum products can increase peristalsis of
intestines and stomach, and eliminate constipation.
They are also therapeutic to diarrhea and improve
vitality of intestines and stomach. |
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Kill germs. Since ancient
times, people have known the effect of plums which
can heal infectious disease. And from modern pharmacological
experiments, we also know plum products can be looked
as germicide to kill cholera germs, red dysentery
germs, large intestine germs etc. |
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Prevent
aging: Lemon acid contained
in plums can promote metabolism and keep cell younger
to prevent aging. |
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Lose
weight: According to the
eighth function above-mentioned, organic acid contained
in plums can eliminate constipation and increase
peristalsis of intestines and stomach so as to make
body loses weight. |
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Improve
looks: Plum products can protect
liver, eliminate constipation, improve the absorption
of calcium and ferrum, and cure anemia to keep skin
radiant and gives a healthy glow. |
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Prevent
allergies: Nowadays, with the modern
living and eating habit, working and recreation
environments of people have all changed. More and
more animal oil and protein are consumed and many
compound food additives are used. As a result, strange
allergy appears. Plum products can prevent fat cell
efficaciously from releasing histamine so as to
prevent all kinds of allergies. |
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* Taking six to ten plums everyday is helpful
for people to improve the acidic or alkaline constitution
of their bodies. |
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* Disclaimer: Our products are not suitablet for
people suffering from hyperglycemia. If they want,
please reduce the amount or eat plum extract according. |
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