1, Cortex Moutan is bitter and pungent, slightly cold in nature, and enters the heart, liver and kidney meridians, and has the effects of clearing heat and cooling blood, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.

2. Clinically, it is mostly used for warming toxin and spotting, hematemesis and epistaxis, night fever and early cooling, sweat-free bone steaming, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, carbuncle, swelling and sore, traumatic injury, etc.

3. According to modern pharmacological research, paeonol and its glycosides contained in Cortex Moutan have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects, and the methanol extract of Cortex Moutan has the effect of inhibiting platelet aggregation.

4. Cortex Moutan also has central inhibitory effects such as sedation, cooling, antipyretic, analgesia and spasmolysis, as well as anti-atherosclerosis, diuretic and anti-ulcer effects.