dark plum

dark plum

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Mume, the name of Chinese medicine. Prunus mume (Sieb.) Sieb.etZuce . dry near mature fruit. It is cultivated in all parts of China, especially in the southern provinces of the Yangtze River Basin. It has the effect of astringent lung, astringent intestines, promoting body fluid and calming Ascaris lumbricoides. Commonly used in lung deficiency cough, diarrhea, thirst, Ascaris, vomiting, abdominal pain.

Application site

The fruit is dry and nearly mature.

Sexual taste

The taste is sour and astringent, and the nature is flat.

Meridian tropism

It belongs to liver, spleen, lung and large intestine meridians.

effect

Astringent lung, astringent intestine, Sheng Jin, an Ascaris.

Indications

It is used for cough due to lung deficiency, diarrhea due to diarrhea, thirst due to deficiency heat, vomiting due to Ascaris and abdominal pain.

Related compatibility

1. For a long cough: dark plum meat (stir fried), Royal rice shell (remove fascia, stir fried with honey). Equal is the end. Take two yuan for each, and adjust the honey soup when you sleep. (compendium of Materia Medica) 2. To treat children's head sores, it is necessary to burn black plum meat, grind the ash carefully, and apply it with raw oil. (Sheng Hui Fang) 3. Treatment of typhoid, Ascaris and dysentery: 300 pieces of black plum, 6 liang of asarum, 10 liang of dried ginger, 16 liang of Coptis, 4 liang of Angelica sinensis, 6 liang of aconite (fried, peeled), 4 liang of Sichuan pepper (sweating), 6 Liang of Cinnamon Twig (peeled), 6 liang of ginseng and 6 liang of Phellodendron. The ten flavors are different smashed sifting, combined treatment, with bitter wine, plum and one night, go nuclear, steamed Wutong rice, cooked rice and muddy, and medicine order, inside the mortar, and honey pestle two thousand, pills such as Indus. Take ten pills first, three times a day, and add a little to 20 pills. No raw, cold, slippery or smelly food. (treatise on febrile diseases, Wumei Pill) 4. Treatment of sore throat: Wumei 30g, Shuanghua 60g, realgar 12g. For the end, honey pill, each pill 3G. Each time contains 1 pill, swallow slowly, 3 times a day. (selected materials of the National Exhibition of new Chinese herbal medicine)

Usage and dosage

6～12g。

taboo

Don't eat too much for a long time.

Processing

Acquisition and processing

In summer, the fruit is harvested near maturity and dried at low temperature until it turns black.

Processing method

1. Black plum meat: take the clean black plum, moisten it with water, soften it or steam it, remove the core. 2. Black plum charcoal: take the clean black plum and stir fry it according to the charcoal method (stir fry without auxiliary materials is called clear stir fry method). It includes frying yellow, frying coke and frying charcoal Stir fry until the skin is bulging. The shape of this product is like black plum, the skin is bulging, and the surface is burnt black. It tastes sour and slightly bitter.

Physiological characteristics

Small trees, sparse shrubs, 4-10 m high; bark light gray or greenish, smooth; branchlets green, smooth, glabrous. Leaf blade ovate or elliptic, 4-8 cm long, 2.5-5 cm wide, apex caudal tip, base broadly cuneate to round, margin often small acute serrate, gray green, pubescent on both sides when young, gradually falling off when growing, or only pubescent in axillary veins below; petiole 1-2 cm long, hairy when young, falling off when old, often glandular. Flowers solitary or sometimes 2 in 1 bud, 2-2.5 cm in diameter, strongly fragrant, opening before leaves; pedicel short, 1-3 mm long, often glabrous; calyx usually reddish brown, but some varieties of calyx green or greenish purple; calyx tube broadly campanulate, glabrous or sometimes pubescent; sepals ovate or suborbicular, apex obtuse; petals obovate, white to pink; stamens short or slightly pubescent Longer than petals; ovary densely pilose, style short or slightly longer than stamens. The fruit is nearly spherical, 2-3cm in diameter, yellow or greenish white, pilose and sour; the flesh adheres to the core; the core is oval, round at the top with a small protruding tip, tapered at the base, slightly flat on both sides, slightly obtuse at the ventral edge, with obvious longitudinal grooves on the ventral and dorsal edges, and honeycombed holes on the surface. The flowering period is winter and spring, and the fruiting period is from May to June (in North China, the fruiting period extends to July to August).

Growth environment

It has been cultivated in all parts of China, but most of them are in the south of the Yangtze River Valley. There are also a few varieties in the north of Jiangsu and the south of Henan. Some varieties have been successfully introduced in North China. Japan and North Korea also have.

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Character identification

Properties: spherical or oblate, 1.5-3cm in diameter, black or brownish black on the surface, wrinkled, round fruit stem mark on the base. The core is hard, oval, brownish yellow, with pits on the surface; the seed is oblate ovate, yellowish. The taste is very sour.

Drug identification

1. Mume: good at producing fluid to quench thirst, astringent lung to stop cough. 2. Black plum charcoal: it is good at astringency and hemostasis, and is often used for hematochezia, hematuria, metrorrhagia, etc.

Related discussion

The classic of materia medica: plum fruit is the most sour one. "Jing" says: heat injures Qi, evil guest in the chest, then the Qi goes against and is full of trouble, the heart is restless. Dark plum tastes sour, can collect floating heat, can inhale to return to the original, so the Lord under the gas, in addition to heat, full of trouble and peace of mind. Dysentery, large intestine collapse also; good saliva dry mouth, deficiency fire inflammation, body fluid shortage also; acid can gather deficiency fire, body fluid, solid bowel off, so the main also. The main body pain, dry not benevolent, cover because of dampness in the meridians, the tendons relaxation longitudinal, or pain is not benevolent; liver main tendons, acid into the liver and nourishing tendons, liver to support, the bone is just tendons soft, organs Tongli and before the syndrome is removed.

Chinese PinYin : Wu Mei