The fruit is known as umeboshi in medicinal herbs, which has the effects of tranquilizing roundworms, generating fluids, astringing the lungs (astringing lung qi) and astringing the intestines, and has the effect of improving the symptoms of prolonged coughing in the lungs, deficiency heat and thirst, roundworms, vomiting and abdominal pain, and prolonged diarrhea and dysentery. The method of consumption is usually decoction, or into the pill, or processed into a proprietary Chinese medicine. Ume taste sour, astringent, flat, to the liver, spleen, lung, large intestine meridian, not only good for the production of fluids, astringent lungs, but also astringent bowel, roundworms, the drug can be decocted, but also with other drugs into the pills or loose food, such as clinical often and almonds with the almonds, in order to treat lung deficiency cough, dry cough with no phlegm or less phlegm of the disease, and the chebulin made of pills to improve the diarrhea for a long time dysentery. In addition, the plum and smallpox pollen, ginseng, maitake and other traditional Chinese medicine made of Yuquan San, but also improve the deficiency of heat and thirst; and fine Xin, Sichuan pepper, Huanglian, epiphyllum and other medicines made of pills, roundworms triggered by vomiting, abdominal pain is also therapeutic. This medicine should not be used with Cangzhu and should not be used for a long time. Its adverse effects are not known. When using umeboshi as a medicinal herb, it must be guided by a professional doctor, and individuals should not use it indiscriminately.