Species different: white peony is mainly for the buttercup plant peony Peorialactiflora Pall's dried root, while red peony is mainly for the buttercup plant hairy fruit red peony Paeonia viitchiiLynch and ovate-leaved paeoniflora (grass paeoniflora) Paeonia obovataMaxim's dried root. Dried root.

Difference in origin: the main source of Paeonia lactiflora is cultivated plants, while the main source of Paeonia lactiflora is wild plants.

Different places of origin: white peony is cultivated all over the country, mainly produced in Zhejiang, Anhui, Sichuan and other places; red peony is cultivated all over the country, mainly produced in Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Hebei, Gansu and other places.

The collection time is different: white peony can be dug in summer and fall, while red peony is mainly dug in the fall.

2, from its alias difference

The name of Paeonia, there are two explanations: First, the sound of the turn, because the peony flowers and named; Second, subdue the food poisoning, harmonize the five flavors, a spoonful of more than one, can be effective, known as the "spoon medicine".

Paeonia lactiflora is divided into two kinds of white peony and red peony, white peony "Poetry" said "spoon medicine", "away from the grass", "Wu Pu Materia Medica" name "its accumulation", "famous doctors" synonym for "Yu Rong". "Yu Rong", "plow food", "white wood", "Compendium of Materia Medica", also known as "will be away from", alias gold peony.

Red peony alias wood peony, "Sheng Ji General Records" called "red peony". Nowadays, the two are known as white peony, red peony, such as the Chinese People's Pharmacopoeia (2010 version of a), the Chinese Materia Medica, the new century of the National Higher Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine Planning Textbook - Traditional Chinese Medicine, white peony, red peony, as the name of the medicine.

3, from the flavor of the meridian difference

White peony taste sour, bitter, slightly cold, to the liver, spleen meridian; red peony taste bitter, slightly cold, to the liver meridian.

4, from the efficacy of the main difference

In terms of efficacy: white peony and red peony efficacy of the difference is significant, white peony work in favor of complementary, collection, both the liver and diarrhea of the liver, complementary that is, complementary liver and blood, in order to nourish the body of the liver; diarrhea, soft liver, convergence of the liver, the liver, in order to diarrhea liver of the use of the liver, so long as the benefit of yin and camp, nourish the blood to soften the liver, suppress the liver yang, and also be able to spleen; red peony work in favor of diarrhea, dispersal, and long as to clear the heat to cool the blood, blood circulation, and eliminate blood stasis, and also diarrhea liver fire. The function of red peony is diarrhea, dispersal, long for clearing heat and cooling the blood, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and also diarrhea of liver fire, so the "commentary on the theory of typhoid fever" said: "Paeonia lactiflora, white filler and red diarrhea, white collector and red scatter.