Umei can be used to treat lung deficiency and prolonged cough, deficiency heat and thirst, ascariasis, vomiting and abdominal pain. If you need to take this medicine, you should be under the guidance of a doctor. Umei is sour, astringent and flat in nature. It belongs to liver, spleen, lung and large intestine meridians. It has the effects of astringing the lungs, astringing the intestines, generating fluids, and tranquilizing roundworms. Wu Mei treatment of lung deficiency cough less phlegm or dry cough without phlegm, often with poppy shells must be used to enhance its astringent lung cough; treatment of prolonged cough, can be used alone boiled cream, or with almonds, half-summers, etc.; treatment of cold in the middle Jiao or spleen and kidney yang deficiency of prolonged diarrhea, or even complete the grain does not melt (stools in the more undigested food), with nutmeg, ginseng and so on. It is not to be taken by those who have solid evils, and those with excessive stomach acid should be cautious of taking umeboshi.