Rain or shine, vendors have to be out there selling. She has for sale wampee fruit.

Medicinal Uses

The wampee is said to have stomachic and cooling effects and to act as a vermifuge. The Chinese say that if one has eaten too many lychees, eating the wampee “will counteract the bad effects. Lychees should be eaten when one is hungry, and wampees only on a full stomach”.

The halved, sun-dried, immature fruit is a Vietnamese and Chinese remedy for bronchitis. Thin slices of the dried roots are sold in Oriental pharmacies for the same purpose. The leaf decoction is used as a hair wash to remove dandruff and preserve the color of the hair.