2. Peony flower is used for fever, heat entering blood, high fever, red tongue, body rash, blood-heat rash, hematemesis, epistaxis, hematuria and fever due to yin deficiency. Peony bark can clear blood and excess heat, and can also treat fever due to yin deficiency. Clearing blood to divide excess heat is often combined with Radix Rehmanniae and Radix Paeoniae Rubra. For deficiency-heat treatment, it is often combined with herbs such as Radix Rehmanniae, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, Artemisia annua and Carapax Trionycis. For blood-heat rash, it is often used with fresh grass rhizome, cacumen Platycladi and Gardenia.
3. Peony flower is used for amenorrhea, traumatic injury, sores, carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle and other diseases. Amenorrhea injuries are all caused by qi and blood stasis, and pain often arises from collateral stasis. Peony flower can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, make blood stasis dissipate and relieve pain. Often used with angelica, red peony, peach blossom and safflower.
4. Peony flower is also a commonly used medicine for sores, intestinal carbuncle and other diseases. For the treatment of sores and carbuncle, it can be combined with heat-clearing and antidotes such as honeysuckle, forsythia and viola. It can be used with rhubarb, mirabilite, peach kernel and winter melon seeds to treat intestinal carbuncle with initial suppurative failure.
5. Peony flower tea is made of three kinds of petals: black peony, red peony and Bai Mudan. Peony dry tea made of black peony petals is black and red in color, and its soup color and taste are similar to Yunnan red, with a little nectar flavor. Dry red peony tea is pink and purplish, while dry Bai Mudan tea is yellow and white. When making peony tea, the water temperature should not be too high, otherwise it will affect the quality of tea soup. Therefore, when female friends brew peony tea in daily life, they must pay attention to putting boiling water for a while before brewing. This is the correct brewing method.