In hot summer, sour plum soup is the best choice for clearing heat and relieving heat. It is recorded in ancient books that "tugong Meijian" is the oldest sour plum soup. The sour plum soup we drink now is a good product made by the imperial dining room of the Qing palace for the emperor to quench heat and thirst, and later spread to the people. It's hard to get rid of the heat. Come and learn from the pharmacist to make the "professional version" of summer plum soup. The composition of sour plum soup sour plum soup is made of black plum, dried hawthorn, orange peel, licorice, osmanthus and rock sugar. It is drunk after being chilled. Among them, black plum has the effects of astringent lung, astringent intestines, promoting saliva and soothing Ascaris. It is used for chronic cough, diarrhea and thirst due to lung deficiency; Hawthorn can be appetizing; Tangerine peel and osmanthus have the effect of refreshing and refreshing. Raw material proportioning and production method: pour 30g of black plum, 30g of dry hawthorn, 10g of orange peel and 5g of licorice into the pot, add appropriate amount of water to soak for 15 minutes, and then boil it for 30 minutes after the high fire is turned off. Add osmanthus flowers 3 minutes before the fire is turned off, and finally add rock sugar (added according to personal taste) to taste. Precautions for drinking sour plum soup: the beverage brewed with sour plum essence on the market can not replace sour plum soup. Because essence, pigment, salt, sugar and other additives may be added to sour plum essence, drinking too much is not good for health. Not all people are suitable for drinking sour plum soup. People with cold and fever, cough and phlegm, chest and diaphragm stuffiness, bacillary dysentery and early enteritis, and those with solid pathogens should not take it. Women should take it carefully during menstruation and before and after childbirth. It is not advisable to eat iced drinks immediately when entering the room from the hot outdoors, which may easily cause gastrointestinal spasm and contraction of gastrointestinal mucosal blood vessels, and may easily lead to diarrhea; It will also cause the contraction of blood vessels of the skin mucosa, which is not conducive to the discharge of sweat from the body surface. (outlook new era)