Medicinal efficacy of white peony root eaten by women
1. Treat irregular menstruation, menstrual abdominal pain, metrorrhagia, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, etc.
Paeonia lactiflora is used to help women nourish blood and astringe yin and treat gynecological diseases. Radix Paeoniae Alba is often used in combination with Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata and Rhizoma Chuanxiong. This product is used together with Guizhi to regulate the balance between camp and health, and is used for exogenous wind-cold, exterior deficiency, spontaneous sweating and evil wind; Is there a keel? Oysters, floating wheat, etc. It can astringe yin and subdue yang, and can be used for treating spontaneous sweating and night sweats caused by yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity.
2. Used for hypochondriac pain, abdominal pain, and hand and foot contracture pain caused by disharmony between liver and qi.
Paeonia lactiflora can help women nourish blood, soften liver and relieve pain, and can also be used for chest pain, abdominal pain, hand and foot contracture caused by disharmony between liver and qi. For hypochondriac pain, it is often combined with Bupleurum and Fructus Aurantii. For abdominal pain and hand and foot contracture, it is often used with licorice. For dysentery and abdominal pain, it can be combined with Coptidis Rhizoma and Radix Aucklandiae.
3. Used for headache and dizziness caused by hyperactivity of liver yang.
Raw Paeonia lactiflora can converge yin and suppress yang, so it can be used for headache and dizziness caused by hyperactivity of liver yang, and is often used equally with mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum, Uncaria rhynchophylla and Tribulus terrestris.
4. Beauty and nourishing blood
If women often have yellow complexion, spots and dull complexion, they can eat white peony root. In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, peony has the function of nourishing blood.
Drug collocation of Paeonia lactiflora
Radix Paeoniae Alba is rich in nutrients such as protein, starch and sugar, and can be used to treat symptoms such as fever due to yin deficiency, irregular menstruation and metrorrhagia. Stir-fried Radix Paeoniae Alba with vinegar is mainly used for soothing the liver, softening the liver, relieving pain and stopping bleeding. It is often used together with liver nourishing drugs or hemostatic drugs to treat metrorrhagia, menorrhagia and menstrual abdominal pain.
Radix Paeoniae Alba has sedative, anticonvulsant, analgesic and cooling effects; Total glucosides of paeony can enhance the learning and short-term memory of normal mice, but not affect their long-term memory. It has obvious protective effect on liver injury caused by carbon tetrachloride, aflatoxin B 1 and D- galactosamine, and has inhibitory effect on the in-situ movement of intestine and stomach, and obviously resists the uterine contraction caused by oxytocin.
Women taking raw white peony root can also regulate their own immune system, which has a great protective effect on the liver and can also inhibit the secretion of gastric juice to a certain extent. The medicinal value of Paeonia lactiflora is so high that people can choose to use Paeonia lactiflora combined with other drugs to treat irregular menstruation, but Paeonia lactiflora must be taken under the guidance of a doctor. Paeonia lactiflora belongs to cold food and is not suitable for diarrhea patients.