Spelling: wumei

English name: dark plum fruit

Source: the dried immature fruit of Prunus mume, a dicotyledonous plant medicine.

Efficacy: astringing lung to relieve cough, astringing intestine to stop diarrhea, stopping bleeding, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, and relieving cough.

Main treatment: chronic cough, asthenic heat, polydipsia, chronic malaria, chronic diarrhea, dysentery, bloody stool, hematuria, bloody collapse, syncope, abdominal pain, vomiting and hookworm disease.

Tropism of nature and taste: sour, astringent and flat. ① Classic: "It tastes sour and flat." 2 "Don't record": "Non-toxic." 3 "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Warm, nontoxic." ④ The Origin of Medicine: "Cold gas, sour taste."

Enter the liver, spleen, lung and large intestine meridian. ① Wang Haogu: "Blood enters the spleen and lung." (2) The Explanation of the Properties of Leigong's Processed Drugs: "Entering the Lung and Kidney." 3 "Ben Cao Jing Shu": "Into the liver." ④ Drug Meaning: "Entering the lung, stomach and large intestine."

Usage and dosage: oral administration: decoction, 0.8 ~1.5 yuan; Or into the pill, scattered. External use: calcined, grinded, dried, sprinkled or applied.

Avoid medication: avoid taking it for those with real evil, and take it with caution for those with hyperacidity.

Drug compatibility: 1, with Schisandra chinensis, promoting fluid production to stop diarrhea, astringing lung to stop cough, and treating chronic cough and diarrhea for use. 2, with terminalia chebula, astringing the lungs and astringing the intestines, can cure chronic cough, chronic diarrhea and proctoptosis. 3, with Sichuan pepper, killing insects and stopping diarrhea, treating chronic diarrhea, chronic dysentery, bloody stool, large intestine slippery diarrhea, and ascariasis.

Other names: Mei Shi (Ben Jing), smoked plum, and orange plum meat (Modern and Practical Chinese Medicine). The original plant Mei (The Book of Songs) is also known as Chun Mei (Materia Medica Rejuvenation).

Prescription Name: Mume, Mume Meat, Jianmei, Jianmei, Big Mume, Vinegar Mume, Steamed Mume, Fried Mume and Mume Charcoal.

In the prescription, ebony, Jianmei, Jianmei and Big ebony all refer to raw ebony. Removing impurities from the original medicine, cleaning, drying in the sun or baking for medicine.

Mume meat is prepared by cleaning Mume, removing the core, taking the meat and drying it in the sun for medicine.

Steamed ebony is prepared by steaming ebony meat in a cage and drying it in the sun. The effects of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, astringing lung and relieving cough are enhanced.

Vinegar ebony is the meat of ebony, which is mixed with rice vinegar. When the vinegar is completely absorbed, it is steamed in a cage and dried in the sun.

Stir-fried ebony is clean ebony, and it is used as medicine by slightly frying it to yellow with slow fire. The astringent and astringent effects are enhanced.

Black plum charcoal is clean. Stir-fry the black plum with strong fire until it is brown and persistent, then spray it with clear water to extinguish the sparks, take it out and dry it for medicine. Inclined to converge and stop bleeding.

Trade name: Plum, which is the dried fruit with stone of dark plum.

Mume meat is the dried and pitted fruit of Mume.

Heximei: It is produced in Zhejiang. A big meat is thick and of good quality. It is an authentic medicinal material.

Anji Mei: Also known as Jianwumei and Jianmei. It is produced in Fujian, which is of great quality and is an authentic medicinal material.

Hongmei: It's from Sichuan. A small meat thin, reddish skin. Quality.

Gangmei: One of the thin people in ebony. Quality.

It is better to have a big meat with thick, soft, sour taste, black skin and no cracks.

Distribution of animal and plant resources: It is cultivated all over the country. Medicinal materials are mainly produced in Sichuan, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan and Guizhou.

Collection and storage of medicinal materials: the green fruits that will mature will be picked in May.

Latin name: fructus mume (Sieb.) Sieb. Etzucc.

Processing method: 1, cleaning: clean impurities, screen off ash, wash and dry in the sun. 2, ebony meat: take the clean ebony slightly drenched with water to make the meat soft, slightly dry, break, and peel off the clean meat. Or steam it in a steamer until it is extremely rotten, rub it in the basket, remove the core, take the meat and dry it in the sun. 3, ebony charcoal: take clean ebony and stir-fry with strong fire until the flesh bulges and scorched spots appear, spray water to dry, take it out and let it cool. 4. Vinegar processing: take clean ebony or ebony meat, mix well with vinegar, moisten it until the vinegar is exhausted, put it in a suitable container, heat it with water or steam for 2-4 hours, take it out and dry it. 5. Steaming: Put the ebony into a bottle, cover it tightly, put it in a boiling pot, steam it to the air, stop the fire for 5 hours, take it out and dry it.

Textual research: from Shennong Herbal Classic. (1) "Essence of Pinhui": "Plum, the wood is like apricot, but the branches are crisp. In early spring, white flowers bloom, which are very clear and fragrant. The flowers will wither and the leaves will begin to grow. In February, they are as solid as beans, which tastes sour and delicious. In May, those who are riper than apricots will be smoked with herbs until they are black, and those who are flooded with salt will be Bai Mei. " ② Diet Spectrum of Living with Interest: "Plum, when you are alive, you should dip in salt, warm your gallbladder and produce fluid. Pregnant women are more addicted to it, and it is better to be fat and crisp before full and not bitter. Eating too much can damage teeth, produce phlegm and help heat, and all phlegm, swelling, accumulation, fullness, unclear exogenous diseases, women's stagnation, and women's flood season, prenatal, postpartum and acne are not taboo. "

Identification of raw medicinal materials: the dried fruit is oblate or irregular spherical, with a diameter of1.5 ~ 3 cm. The surface is brown-black to dark-black, shriveled and uneven. Some skins have been broken and the core is exposed. There is an obvious depression at one end of the fruit (that is, the stalk falls off), and the fruit is soft. The nucleus is hard, brown, and contains light yellow kernel 1 grain, which is very similar to almond in shape and smell. The gas is specific and the taste is extremely sour. It is better to be large, thick-fleshed, small-nucleated, with dark skin, no cracking and exposed nuclei, soft and moist, and extremely sour taste. Microscopic identification: powder: reddish brown. ① The endocarp stone cells are polygonal, triangle-like, triangle-like, oval-like, oblong or spindle-like, with a diameter of13 ~ 72 μ m, a length of about 1 10μm, a wall thickness of 4 ~ 25 μ m, obvious pits, fine pits and often containing reddish brown substances. ② The testa stone cells are shell-shaped, helmet-hat-shaped, rectangular-like, square-like, spreading-like or elongated in side view, with a height of 28 ~ 78 μ m, a bottom width of about 166μm, an arched wall with a thickness of about 23μm, fine layering, slightly thick bottom wall and obvious holes; On the surface, it looks like a polygon, a circle, a shuttle, an oblong or a long shuttle, with uneven wall thickness and sparse pits. ③ The pericarp is single-celled and non-glandular, relatively flat, slightly curved or hook-shaped or sickle-shaped, with a length of (26 ~) 52 ~ 504 μ m and a diameter of10 ~ 22 μ m, with non-lignified or micro-lignified walls, with occasional thread-like staggered textures on the surface, some cells with 2 ~ 4 thin transverse septa, and cells often containing brown substances. ④ The skin cells in the peel contain black and brown substances, and sometimes the scars after the hair falls off can be seen. ⑤ The parenchyma cells of mesocarp are extremely shriveled, and some of them contain calcium oxalate clusters with a diameter of 27 ~ 53 μ m; Occasionally, long strips capture parietal cells. In addition, cotyledon cells have vague granules and tiny calcium oxalate clusters. This product is better with large size, thick meat, small core, dark skin color and sour taste.

Chemical composition of traditional Chinese medicine: the fruit contains citric acid19%, malic acid 15%, succinic acid, carbohydrates, sitosterol, wax-like substances and oleanolic acid-like substances. It contains hydrocyanic acid in the mature stage. The fruit contains a lot of citric acid, a little malic acid, succinic acid, tartaric acid, oleanolic acid and sitosterol. The seeds contain amygdalin.