| drug name | Smoked Plum |
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This product is the nearly mature fruit of Prunus mume (Prunus mume Sieb. et Zucc.), a deciduous tree plant in the Rosaceae family. Mainly produced in Zhejiang, Fujian, Yunnan and other places. In summer, the fruits are harvested when they are nearly mature. They are dried at low temperature until the skin becomes wrinkled and the color turns black. Used for nucleation or stir-frying to scorch.
[Property]
sour and astrigent, neutral. act on liver, spleen, lung and large intestine channels.
astringing lung and relieving cough, astringing intestines and checking diarrhea, quieting ascaris to relieve carbuncle, promoting fluid production to quench thirst.
- For lung deficiency chronic cough disease. Smoked Plum is sour and astringent, and can astringe lung and relieve cough. Suitable for lung deficiency chronic cough disease with less phlegm or dry cough with no phlegm. Often used with Poppy Capsule and Bitter Apricot Seed, such as Shiyi Dexiao Fang Just-One-Serving Powder.
- For chronic diarrhea. This product can also astringing intestines and checking diarrhea. To treat chronic diarrhea, it is often used with Poppy Capsule and Chebula Fruit, such as Zhengzhi Zhunsheng Intestine-Astringing Pill.
- For gallbladder ascariasis abdominal pain, vomiting. Ascaris stagnates when it is sour. This product is extremely sour and has the effects of quieting ascaris to relieve pain and downbearing counterflow to stop vomiting. It is suitable for gallbladder ascariasis caused by abdominal pain, vomiting, and cold limbs caused by roundworms. Often used with Asarum, Pricklyash Peel, Coptis Rhizome, Aconite Lateral Root, such as Mume Pill.
- It is used for consumptive thirst caused by deficiency heat. The taste is sour and promotes fluid production, so it has the effect of promoting fluid production to quench thirst. To treat consumptive thirst due to deficiency heat, it can be taken alone or in combination with Snakegourd Root, Ophiopogon Tuber, Ginseng, such as Yuquan scattered.
- In addition, when taken internally, this product can stop bleeding and treat metrorrhagia and metrostaxis; external application can eliminate sores and treat extrusion of pterygium.
- Benjing: "Lowering qi, removes heat, annoyance and fullness, provides peace of mind, relieves limb pain, withers, dead muscles, removes blue and black hemorrhoids, and corrodes the flesh."
- 《 materia medica Gangmu": "Astringent lungs and astringent intestines, relieves chronic cough and diarrhea, regurgitation and diaphragm, gallbladder ascariasis, vomiting."
- Benjing Fengyuan: "Smoked Plum sour, beneficial essence and appetizer It can astringe the lungs and intestines, relieve vomiting and sweating, and relieve asthma. It must be used to treat bloody dysentery. If the bloody dysentery persists, smoked plum charred with property retained will gradually stop the malignant sores and burns. Grind the ashes and apply them, and the bad things will disappear on their own. This is the experience of
- Neijing removing dead muscles and bad flesh."
Decoction, 3 to 10g, up to 30g for large doses. Appropriate amount for external use, mash or stir-frying to scorch into powder for external application. It should be stir-frying to scorch to stop diarrhea and bleeding.
Those with exterior pathogens on the outside or heat retention of food on the inside should not take it.
This product mainly contains citric acid, malic acid, amber acid, carbohydrates, sitosterol, wax-like substances and oleanolic acid-like substances. This product decocted with water has inhibitory effects on a variety of nature-of-disease-causing bacteria and skin fungi in vitro. decoction can inhibit the movement of isolated rabbit intestines. Can promote gall fel secretion. It has an inhibitory effect on the activity of roundworms in vitro. Can enhance the body's immune function.
