This product is the root of the perennial herbaceous plant Peony Root (Paeonia lactiflora Pall.) or Sichuan Red Peony Root (Paeonia veitchii Lynch) of the Japanese buttercup herb family. It is produced in most regions of the country. It is harvested in spring and autumn, dried, and sliced. It can be used raw or stir-fried.

bubble_chart Properties and Meridians

Bitter, slightly cold. act on liver channel.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Clearing heat and cooling blood, resolving stasis to stop pain.

bubble_chart Indications

1. Used for heat entering nutrient-blood, macula and papule, hematemesis, and epistaxis. This product is bitter and cold, mainly enters the liver meridian, is good at moving through the blood aspect, can clear liver heat, remove blood aspect stagnant heat, and has the effects of cooling blood, stopping bleeding, dispersing stasis, and eliminating macula. It is used to treat warm disease heat entering nutrient-blood, dark purple macula and papule, as well as blood heat hematemesis and epistaxis, often combined with Unprocessed Rehmannia Root and Moutan Bark.
2. Used for amenorrhea and stuffiness, traumatic injuries, and abscesses and sores. This product is bitter and descending, has the effects of activating and unblocking meridians, dispersing stasis and eliminating stuffiness, moving stagnation, and relieving pain. It is used to treat blood heat stasis and stagnation, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, often combined with motherwort herb, Salvia, Shiny Bugleweed; to treat blood stasis stuffiness and masses, it can be combined with Moutan Bark, Peach Kernel, Cinnamon Twig, etc., such as Cinnamon Twig and Poria Pill; used to treat traumatic injuries, stasis swelling, and pain, often combined with frankincense, myrrh, Dragon's Blood Resin to heal injuries and relieve pain. Used to treat heat toxin congestion, abscesses, and sores, often combined with Lonicera, Forsythia, Gardenia, etc.
3. Used for red eye nebula and obstruction. This product can clear and drain liver fire, resolve stasis to stop pain, often combined with Chrysanthemum Flower, Scouring Rush Herb, Prunella, etc.

bubble_chart Documentation

1. Benjing: "Main pathogenic qi abdominal pain, eliminates blood impediment, breaks hard accumulations, cold and heat hernia and abdominal masses, relieves pain, and promotes urination."
2. Diannan Bencao: "Drains spleen fire, descends qi, moves blood, breaks blood stasis, disperses blood clots, stops abdominal pain, and attacks abscesses and sores."
3. Bencao Beiyao: "Red Peony Root's main treatments are similar to Peony Root, especially effective in draining liver fire, dispersing stagnant blood, treating abdominal pain and hard accumulations, blood impediment hernia and abdominal masses, amenorrhea and bloody defecation, abscesses and swelling, and red eyes. It can move stagnation in the blood."

bubble_chart Usage and Dosage

Decoct and take 6-15g.

bubble_chart Cautions and Contraindications

Blood cold amenorrhea should not be used. Contraindicated with false hellebore.

bubble_chart Modern Pharmacology

This product contains Peony Root glycosides, paeonol, Peony Root flower glycosides, benzoic acid, tannins, resins, volatile oils, β-sitosterol, triterpenes, etc.

1. It can dilate the coronary arteries, improve hypoxia tolerance, inhibit platelet aggregation, prevent thrombosis, counteract experimental myocardial ischemia, improve microcirculation, and reduce portal hypertension.
2. It has antispasmodic effects.
3. Peony Root glycosides have sedative, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antipyretic, anticonvulsant, anti-ulcer, and hypotensive effects.
4. It exhibits varying degrees of inhibitory effects against multiple pathogenic microorganisms.