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Smoked Plum

Name

Smoked Plum

Latin Pharmaceutical Name

Mume Fructus

Chinese Name

乌梅

Category

Fruits and seeds

Smoked PlumMore Info

Production Regions

Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Shandong.

Macroscopic Features

Sub-circular or sub-spherical shape, diameter is 1.5~3cm. Externally black or brownish-black, wrinkled unevenly, base has round fruit stem scar. Core is hard, oval, brownish-yellow, externally has indented dots. Seed is flat oval shape, pale yellow. faint odor, very sour taste.

Quality Requirements

Superior medicinal material is large, thick, soft and moist, very sour.

Properties

Sour, astringent, neutral

Functions

Astringes lung, astringes intestines, engenders fluid, calms worms. Apply to pulmondeficiency due to long term cough, lingering dysentery and diarrhea, asthenic fever and diabetes, vomiting and abdominal pain due to ascariasis, ascariasis of creeping figary tract.

Processed Form

Wu mei charcoal: Shaped similar to wu mei, skin and flesh are bulging, externally burnt-black. Sour and slightly bitter taste.

Origin

The dried nearly mature fruit of Prunus mume (Sieh.) Sieb. et Zucc.(Rosaceae). Harvested in summer when the fruit is nearly ripe, dried in low temperature and then covered until it turned black.

Smoked PlumHerbs in the formula

Mume Pill

Action：Calms roundworms and relieves pain.

Indication：Wu Mei Wan is used for syncope due to roundworms. The symptoms include paroxysmal pain of the abdomen and stomach cavity, vexatious vomiting, vomiting after eating, vomiting roundworms, cold limbs, and chronic diarrhea or dysentery.

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Nine Immortals Powder

Action：Astringes the lung, relieves cough, boosts qi and nourishes yin.

Indication：Jiu Xian San is designed for a pattern of chronic cough caused by lung deficiency. The main symptoms include a chronic, unremitting cough that may be accompanied by labored breathing in severe cases, spontaneous sweating, scanty, sticky phlegm, and a deficient, rapid pulse.

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