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🌿 Herb

Plum Flower

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🌿 All Herb data fields for Plum Flower
🌿 Names
Pinyin Name
Mei Hua
中文名 (Chinese)
梅花
Latin Name
Flos Mume; Mume Flos
English Name
Plum Flower
Alias Names
白梅花; 绿萼梅; 绿梅花
☯ TCM Properties
Properties (性味)
Slightly Sour; Calm
Meridians (归经)
Liver; Stomach; Lung
Therapeutic Class (EN)
Qi Regulating Drugs
功效分类 (CN)
理气药
🩺 Clinical Profile
Function (功能)
Treatment of: 1. qi stagnation in the liver and stomach manifested as distension and pain in the hypochondriac regions, belching and epigastric pain. mume flower (lu'emei) is used with bupleurum root (chaihu), cyperus tuber (xiangfu), green tangerine peel (qingpi) and costus root (muxiang). 2. phlegm and qi stagnated in the throat (globus hystericus) manifested as the sensation of a foreign body in the throat. mume flower (lu'emei) is used with trichosanthes peel (gualoupi), tangerine peel (chen
Indication (主治)
Treatment of: 1. qi stagnation in the liver and stomach manifested as distension and pain in the hypochondriac regions, belching and epigastric pain. mume flower (lu'emei) is used with bupleurum root (chaihu), cyperus tuber (xiangfu), green tangerine peel
🔗 External References
SymMap
TCMID
5696
TCMSP
279
TCM-ID
1469
🔍 Raw view — every non-empty column on this row (29 fields)
name
Plum Flower
chinese name
梅花
pinyin name
Mei Hua
latin name
Flos Mume; Mume Flos
english name
Plum Flower
properties english
Slightly Sour; Calm
meridians english
Liver; Stomach; Lung
symmap herb id
279
tcmid id
5696
tcmsp id
279
herb id str
HERB003523
function text
Treatment of: 1. qi stagnation in the liver and stomach manifested as distension and pain in the hypochondriac regions, belching and epigastric pain. mume flower (lu'emei) is used with bupleurum root (chaihu), cyperus tuber (xiangfu), green tangerine peel (qingpi) and costus root (muxiang). 2. phlegm and qi stagnated in the throat (globus hystericus) manifested as the sensation of a foreign body in the throat. mume flower (lu'emei) is used with trichosanthes peel (gualoupi), tangerine peel (chenpi), mulberry bark (sangbaipi), albizia bark (hehuanpi) and perilla leaf (zisuye).
indication
Treatment of: 1. qi stagnation in the liver and stomach manifested as distension and pain in the hypochondriac regions, belching and epigastric pain. mume flower (lu'emei) is used with bupleurum root (chaihu), cyperus tuber (xiangfu), green tangerine peel
therapeutic en class
Qi Regulating Drugs
therapeutic cn class
理气药
tcm id id
1469
alias name
白梅花; 绿萼梅; 绿梅花
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