The properties are bitter, sour and slightly cold. It enters the liver and spleen meridians.

Effects and Indications

1.Nourishing blood and astringent yin is used for menstrual disorders, menstrual closure, dysmenorrhea, often with Angelica sinensis, Radix Rehmanniae, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, such as the Four Things Soup; used for the external wind-cold, the surface of the deficiency of spontaneous sweating, often with gui zhi, ginger, jujubes, licorice, such as Gui Zhi Tang; used for yin deficiency and night sweating, often with oyster, keel bone, and so on.

2. Soften the liver and relieve pain for liver qi disharmony and dystocia, often with Chaihu, Xiangshu, Chuanxiong, etc., formula such as Chaihu Shuo Liver San; used for spleen deficiency and liver exuberance, abdominal pain and diarrhea, often with Fangfeng, Atractylodes macrocephala, Chenpi, formula such as pain and diarrhea to be prescribed; used for the acute and severe dysentery and abdominal pain, often with wood sorrel, betel nut, yellow rhizome, etc., formula such as Paeonia lactiflora soup; used for the pain of the epigastric and abdominal and the limb constriction, often with Licorice, prescription such as Paeonia lactiflora and Licorice soup. The formula is like Paeoniae Radix et Rhizoma Glycyrrhizae.

3. It is used in the treatment of liver blood deficiency, hyperactivity of liver yang, headache, dizziness and vertigo, often combined with Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae, Radix et Rhizoma Ochraceae, etc., such as Jiantao Tang.

The dosage is 5~10 grams, large doses can be used to 15~30 grams, water decoction. It should be used raw to pacify the liver, and fried to nourish blood and astringe the yin.

Contraindications anti-veratrum.

By the word white peony bitter, acid and cold, into the liver, spleen blood, acid can be astringent, bitter cool and drain the heat, and have to nourish the blood and astringent yin, soften the liver to relieve pain, suppress the liver yang, for the treatment of pain in the good medicine.

The identification of drugs white peony and angelica can tonify blood, pain, but white peony acid cold, long for the convergence of yin and liver, ease the pain, tonifying the role of blood is weak; angelica sweet and pungent and warm, long for the regulation of menstruation and blood, blood stasis, pain, tonifying the role of blood is stronger. Therefore, white peony is often used in cases of blood deficiency with heat or liver qi for pain, while angelica is often used in cases of blood deficiency with cold or stagnation for pain. If the angelica peony is necessary, can enhance the blood nourishing yin function.

While white peony and red peony are of the same family, white peony nourishes blood and calms the liver, and is good at astringing yin; red peony cools blood and activates blood circulation, and is good at dispersing blood stasis. Therefore, white peony is often used to tonify blood, nourish yin and regulate menstruation, while red peony is often used to clear heat, cool blood and promote blood circulation to remove blood stasis.