Wu Mei Wan by Blue Poppy’s Great Nature Classics is a formula that comes from Zhang Zhongjings late Han dynasty Shang Han Lun (Treatise on Damage [Due to] Cold).

Calms roundworms and relieves pain. Wu Mei Wan is used for syncope due to roundworms. The symptoms include paroxysmal pain of the abdomen and stomach cavity, vexatious vomiting, vomiting after eating, vomiting roundworms, cold limbs, and chronic diarrhea or dysentery.

Within this formula, Wu Mei courses the liver and rectifies the qi, engenders fluids and secures and astringes.

Hua Jiao is acrid and warm. It expels worms and warms the viscera. Huang Lian and Huang Bai are bitter and cold. They clear heat and move any worms downward.

Gan Jiang, Gui Zhi, and Fu Zi warm the interior and scatter cold.

Ren Shen supplements the qi and Dang Gui supplements the blood. Dang Gui also quickens the blood.

Action: Warms the viscera and clears heat, courses the liver and harmonizes the stomach, quiets roundworms.

Pattern: Hot and cold, vacuity (spleen) and repletion (heat and obstruction due to cold)

Chinese Symptomology: Signs & symptoms of liver depression qi stagnation include: Irritability, chest oppression, a bowstring pulse. Signs & symptoms of spleen vacuity include: Fatigue, lack of strength, insidious abdominal pain, vomiting after eating, postural hypotension, cold hands and feet, borborygmus, incessant diarrhea, an enlarged tongue with teeth-marks on its edges, a forceless pulse. Signs & symptoms of heat include: Agitation, vexatious heat, clamoring stomach, a red tongue with geographically peeled.

Western Symptomology: Hot and cold, vacuity (spleen) and repletion (heat and obstruction due to cold) resulting in 1) Parasitic infections, such as ascariasis, biliary ascariasis, and hookworm. 2) Digestive diseases marked by diarrhea, such as chronic bacillary dysentery, ulcerative colitis, and irritable bowel syndrome. 3) Other digestive disorders, including cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, peptic ulcers, functional gastric disorder, and neurogenic vomiting. 4) Ear, nose, and throat disorders, such as keratitis, corneal ulcers, glaucoma, apthous ulcers, chronic suppurative otitis media. 5) Gynecological conditions, such as morning sickness, chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, functional uterine bleeding, and dysmenorrhea.

Suggested Use:
Adults take 3 capsules 2 times per day or as directed by your healthcare practitioner.

Wu Mei Wan Ingredients in 3 capsules:
Wu Mei (Fructus Mume) 150 mg
Gan Jiang (dry Rhizoma Zingiberis) 90 mg
Gui Zhi (Ramulus Cinnamomi) 90 mg
Fu Zi (Radix Lateralis Praeparata Aconiti) 90 mg
Huang Bai (Cortex Phellodendri) 90 mg
Ren Shen (Radix Ginseng) 90 mg
Dang Gui (Radix Angelicae Sinensis) 90 mg
Huang Lian (Rhizoma Coptidis) 45 mg
Hua Jiao (Pericarpium Zanthoxyli) 15 mg