Useful properties of plum are shown at rheumatism and diseases of a metabolism (gout, etc.), and broths and lotions from the fresh and dried-up leaves are applied as wound healing means.
Plums contain potassium salts: them in plums to 214 mg on 100 g of fruits. Potassium has important physiological value, namely it takes part in transfer of nervous impulses, in reduction of muscles, in maintenance of warm activity and acid-base balance in an organism. Under the influence of potassium the zhelcheotdeleniye and removal of urine from an organism amplify. In a medical diet of plum, and especially prunes, find rather broad application at some diseases of intestines which are followed by locks at gout, damages of a liver, kidneys and hearts, for increase of appetite and secretion of gastric juice.