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Lingchuangzi: A fruit. When the owner was bedridden and delirious at night, consuming this fruit cured the illness.

Wulouzi: Sweet in taste, warm in nature, non-toxic. Its main functions are to warm the middle jiao, benefit qi, resolve phlegm and cough, tonify deficiency and damage, and improve complexion. It makes the body robust and strong. It grows in Persia and resembles a date. Another theory suggests it is the Persian date.

*Haiyao Bencao* records: (The tree resembles a chestnut tree, its fruits resemble acorns with three angles. It aids digestion, stops coughing, treats emaciation due to deficiency, and enhances facial luster. Long-term consumption causes no harm.)

Dujuozi: Sour and astringent in taste, neutral in nature, non-toxic. Long-term consumption benefits qi and stops diarrhea. It grows in the southern regions; the tree is over one zhang high, and the fruits are ovate. Xu Biao's *Nanfang Ji* records: The Dujuo tree flowers in the second lunar month, with flowers appearing alongside the developing fruit.

*Haiyao Bencao* records: (According to Xu Biao's *Nanzhou Ji*, it grows in the mountains and valleys of Guangnan. It flowers in the second lunar month and bears fruit by late summer. The fruits are ovate. Its main functions are to benefit qi, calm the spirit, treat seminal emission and diarrhea, hemorrhoids, and warm the intestines. Long-term consumption causes no harm.)

Wenlinlang: Sweet in taste, non-toxic. Its main function is to treat watery dysentery and remove irritability and heat. The fruits resemble plums or Malus asiatica (Chinese pear). It grows in the Bohai region. Locals say the tree floated down from the river and was picked up by a person named Wenlinlang, hence the name.

*Haiyao Bencao* records: (It is also found in Nanshan. The locals call it [name missing in text], sour and fragrant, slightly warm, non-toxic. It mainly treats watery diarrhea, intestinal deficiency, and irritability/heat. It is suitable for raw consumption and can dissipate alcohol intoxication.)

Muweizi: Sour in taste, neutral in nature, non-toxic. Its main function is to treat "evil water" in the heart and water retention. It grows in the southern mountains of Lingnan. The leaves resemble those of the chinaberry tree (*Melia azedarach*), and the fruits resemble olives but are hard, also resembling dates.

Non-toxic. Associated with Wu Mei (Smoked Plum) and Bai Mei (Salted Plum). Plant growth.

Mei Shi (Plum Fruit) (from *Shennong Bencao Jing*): Main functions include directing qi downward, removing irritability and fullness due to heat, calming the mind, treating limb pain, hemiplegia, numbness, necrotic tissue, removing dark spots/moles, and treating malignant diseases. (The above red text is from *Shennong Bencao Jing*). Stops dysentery, improves excessive salivation and dry mouth. (The above black text is recorded by famous physicians.)

[Seedlings] According to records: The tree resembles an apricot tree, with stiff and brittle branches. In early spring, it blooms with white flowers that are very fragrant. Leaves emerge only as the flowers fade. Fruits form in the second lunar month, resembling beans, sour in taste, and favored by beauties. Harvested in the fifth lunar month when nearly ripe, larger than apricots. Smoked with smoke from various herbs until black becomes Wu Mei (Smoked Plum); salted and sun-dried becomes Bai Mei (White/Salted Plum).

[Origin] (*Tujing* records): Grows in the mountains and valleys of Hanzhong. Now found in Xianghan, Chuan-Shu, Jianghu, Huai-Ling regions. (Authentic origin): Yinzhou and present-day Anji are superior.

[Season] (Growth) Flowers in early spring, fruits in the second lunar month. (Harvest) Collect fruits in the fifth lunar month.

[Processing] Dry by fire.

[Part Used] Fruit.

[Quality] Resembles apricot fruit.

[Color] Green when raw, yellow when ripe.

[Taste] Sour.

[Nature] Neutral.

[Qi Property] Thin scent, belonging to yang within yin.

[Odor] Fragrant.

[Main Indications] Generates fluids, stops thirst, removes cold-heat dysentery.

[Preparation] Remove pits before use.

[Treatment] (Therapy) (*Tujing* records): Decoction of leaves treats chronic dysentery (resting dysentery). ○ Roots treat wind-bi obstruction. ○ Wu Mei treats shanghan irritability/heat, huoluan dryness/thirst, consumptive disease with emaciation, and postpartum qi dysentery. (Tao Hongjing says) Bai Mei can be used to moles and cauterize malignant flesh. (*Tang Ben Zhu* says) Fruit unblocks sinews and vessels, removes bi syndrome. (*Yaoxing Lun* says) Pits remove irritability/heat. (Ri Hua Zi says) Fruit stops thirst. ○ Leaves stop huoluan. ○ Bai Mei applied externally to knife/arrow wounds and embedded splinters. ○ Wu Mei removes fatigue and bone-steaming fever, relieves irritability/astringes intestines, resolves alcohol toxicity, treats hemiplegia and skin paralysis, removes dark spots, and induces sleep. (Chen Cangqi says) Wu Mei resolves phlegm, expels malaria and miasma, regulates the middle, stops vomiting. (Meng Shen says) For constipation with sensation of qi rushing to death, soak Wu Mei in soup, remove pit, pound into pills the size of dates, insert into anus to relieve blockage. (*Tangye Bencao* says) Wu Mei ash applied to all sores/flesh tags and roundworms.

[Combinations] Wu Mei combined with Jian Tea and Gan Jiang (Dried Ginger) made into pills stops resting dysentery. ○ Combined with honey made into pills, taken with Shiliupi Gen decoction, treats sores in the lower jiao due to shanghan.

[Contraindications] Do not consume while taking Huangjing (Polygonatum). ○ Excessive consumption damages bones, corrodes spleen/stomach, causes fever, and damages teeth. ○ Do not use plum roots that have emerged from the soil.