This product is the root bark of peony (Paeonia suffruticosa Andr.), a perennial deciduous shrub of the japanese buttercup herb family. Produced in Anhui, Shandong and other places. Harvested in autumn and sun-dried. Use raw or fried.

[Property]

bitter and acrid, slightly cold. act on heart, liver and kidney channels.

[Efficacy]

clearing heat and cooling blood, invigorating blood and resolving stasis.

[Indications]

1. Used for macula and papule. This product is slightly cold, can clear the nutrient aspect, produce heat in the blood aspect, and has the effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding. To treat warm disease, heat enters the nutrient-blood, forcing blood, spots and rashes, and hematemesis, which are often the same as Unprocessed Rehmannia Root Huang and Red Peony Root use.
2. Used to damage to yin, yin-deficiency fever. This product is pungent and cold, good at clearing away Yin and subduing heat. It is often used to treat symptoms of late stage [third stage] of warm disease, where evil factors submerge the yin component, body fluids are injured, night fever abating at dawn, and fever subsides without sweating. It is often used with turtle carapace and Unprocessed Rehmannia Root Yellow, Anemarrhena and the like can be used, such as Sweet Wormwood and Turtle Shell Decoction.
3. It is used for blood stagnation, amenorrhea, dysmenorrheal stuffiness, bruises and injuries. This product can also activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis. To treat blood stagnation, amenorrhea, stuffiness, etc., often used with Peach Kernel, Red Peony Root, Cinnamon Twig, such as Cinnamon Twig and Poria Pill; used to treat bruises, bruises and pain, often used with Chinese Angelica, Peach Kernel, frankincense is used equally.
4. It is used for carbuncle ulcer, intestinal abscess and abdominal pain. This product is bitter and cold, clearing heat and cooling blood, dispersing blood stasis and eliminating carbuncle. It is used to treat excessive fire toxin and carbuncle sores. It can be used equally with Lonicera, Forsythia and Dandelion; it is used to treat intestinal abscess. Since then, there have been many combinations of medicinals Rhubarb Rhizoma, Peach Kernel, Mirabilite, etc., such as Rhubarb and Peony Peel Decoction.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "Master Hanre, apoplexy convulsion, spasm, fright epilepsy pathogenic qi, remove static blood, leave the intestines and stomach, and calm five zang-organs , treat carbuncle."
2. Zhenzhunang: "Cure gastrointestinal hemorrhage, epistaxis, hematemesis, without sweating steaming bone fever."
3. Bencao Gangmu: " Treats submerged fire in the blood and eliminates irritability and heat."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoction, 6~12g, used raw to dissipate heat, cooling blood, invigorating blood and resolving stasis, stir-frying to scorch to stop bleeding.

[Precaution]

Blood deficiency, cold, hypermenorrhea and pregnant women should not be used.

This product contains peony acid, peony acid glycosides, peony root glycosides, volatile oils and phytosterols, etc.

• Paeonol and glycoside components both have anti-inflammatory effects.
• Paeonol has sedative, cooling, antipyretic, analgesic, antispasmodic and other central nervous system inhibitory effects;
• Decocted with water solution, paeonol and decocted with water solution without paeonol all have obvious effects. Antihypertensive effect.
• Its decoction has inhibitory effects on various pathogenic bacteria such as dysentery bacilli, disease caused by cold bacilli, and nature of disease-causing skin fungi.
• Paeonol can also cause congestion of the membrane in the uterus of animals, have a menstrual effect, and has an anti-early pregnancy effect in mice;
• Paeonol also has anti-ulcer and inhibitory effects on gastric juice secretion.