1, ebony is a very common Chinese medicine in clinic. Its taste is sour, astringent and flat, and it mainly enters the liver meridian, spleen meridian, lung meridian and large intestine meridian. It has certain functions of moistening lung, astringing, promoting fluid production, astringing intestine, stopping diarrhea, and calming constrictions.

2. Mume can be used to treat chronic cough due to lung deficiency, or chronic diarrhea and dysentery due to spleen and stomach weakness, and improve symptoms of deficiency heat and thirst, abdominal pain and vomiting.

3. However, because ebony has the function of astringing the lung, some diseases, such as patients in the early stage of a cold or patients with enteritis, cannot be used, so as not to cause pathogens to remain in the body.