Formulas against parasites
Wu mei wan
Mume Pill
- Chinese name
- 乌梅丸
- Group
- Formulas against parasites
- English name
- Mume Formula
- Basic formula
- ✓
Warms and strengthens the internal organs and the qi and expels worms.
Indications
For cold limbs from worms with intestinal pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. The book also mentions chronic dysentery, roundworms and tapeworms (also in the bile ducts), chronic gastroenteritis, complaints after stomach surgery and enteritis.
Ingredients
| Ingredients | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mume plum (wu mei) | 10–15 g |
| Xi xin (Chinese wild ginger)toxic | no amount |
| Dried ginger (gan jiang) | 6–9 g |
| Sichuan pepper (hua jiao) | 1–3 g |
| Cinnamon twig (gui zhi) | 6–9 g |
| Prepared aconite (fu zi)toxic | no amount |
| Huang lian (coptis) | 3–6 g |
| Huang bai (phellodendron) | 6–9 g |
| Ginseng (ren shen) | 6–9 g |
| Dang gui (Chinese angelica) | 6–9 g |
- Tongue
- red with a map-like, patchy coating
- Pulse
- deep, wiry
Variations
- For amoebic dysentery, tapeworm and pinworms, the book describes: omit aconite and cinnamon, add rhubarb and ya dan zi.
- For a stronger effect against worms: add shi jun zi, areca nut and chinaberry root bark.
- To expel the worms with the stool: add rhubarb.
- Without cold limbs: omit cinnamon twig and aconite.
- For severe vomiting: add wu zhu yu and ban xia.