Smoked Plum
Fructus Mume, Mume Fructus
Wu Mei

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Sour; astringent; calm

Part(s) used

Unripe fruit

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To arrest persistent cough, to relieve diarrhea by astringing the intestines, to promote the production of body fluid, and to relieve colic caused by ascaris.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Enduring cough, chronic diarrhea and dysentery, hematuria, hematochezia, flooding and spotting, vacuity heat with vexation and thirst, roundworm reversal with abdominal pain, outcrop of sore and welling abscess.