Red peony

Also known as: red peony, red peony

Taste and flavor: bitter taste, slightly cold nature; to the liver meridian.

Cleansing liver fire and removing heat from the blood

Red peony has the effect of clearing heat and cooling the blood, dispersing bruises and relieving pain, and it is good at removing heat from the blood, clearing liver fire and removing heat from the blood. According to the Record of Famous Doctors, red peony "smooths the blood, eases the middle, disperses evil blood, drives away the blood of thieves, removes water and gas, facilitates the large and small intestines of the bladder, eliminates carbuncles and swellings, and is sometimes used for cold and heat, abdominal pain in the midst of evil and lumbar pain." In recent years, a variety of pharmacological effects of red peony have been clarified, such as dilation of coronary arteries, anti-myocardial ischemia, anti-thrombosis, anti-convulsions, anti-tumor and so on. Among them, the efficacy of red peony on the treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and the improvement of mental retardation, especially noteworthy

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Red peony is cylindrical, slightly curved, 5 to 40 centimeters long, 0.5 to 3 centimeters in diameter. The surface is brownish, scabrous, with longitudinal grooves and wrinkles. Distributed throughout the country, wild red peony is mainly produced in Inner Mongolia, Northeast, Sichuan and other places. Belongs to the family of mullein perennial herbaceous plants, hairy fruit red peony, egg leaf peony or peony roots can be used for medicine, generally spring, fall two seasons to dig, remove the rhizome, fibrous roots and sediment, sun-dried. Modern research found that red peony mainly contains paeoniflorin, paeoniflorin lactone glycoside, oxidized paeoniflorin, peonidiol, benzoic acid, volatile oil, fatty oil, resin, tannin, protein, sugar, starch and so on.

Effects and Indications

Effects clearing heat and cooling the blood, dispersing bruises and relieving pain.

It is used in treating warm-heat diseases, such as heat entering the blood, fever, epistaxis, etc. It is also used in treating liver-heat-induced eye redness, swelling and pain, dystocia, etc. It is also used in treating blood stagnation, dysmenorrhea, abdominal pain, bruises, etc. It is also used in treating carbuncle, swollen sores and ulcers, or at the first sign of carbuncle.

Identification

White peony, red peony in the "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" in no distinction, collectively referred to as peony, to the end of the Tang and early Song Dynasty, the two divided into two began to be clear. Today's use of peony is mainly cultivated, digging peony root directly after drying for red peony; boiled in boiling water to remove the outer skin or peeled and then boiled, dried, for white peony. The effects of red peony and white peony are different, red peony has the effect of clearing heat and cooling the blood, dispersing bruises and relieving pain, which is applicable to the symptoms of blood heat and blood stagnation; white peony has the effect of nourishing the blood and regulating menstruation, calming the liver and relieving pain and converging the yin to stop sweating, which is applicable to the symptoms of blood deficiency and yin deficiency, liver exuberance, and loss of softness of the liver, and it is also applicable to the effect of stopping sweating.

Precautions

1. It is not suitable for those who have blood deficiency without blockage, blood cold and menstrual closure, deficiency of cold, yang deficiency, or carbuncle has been ulcerated. 2. It is not suitable to be used together with quinoa.