Red peony root: Chinese medicine name, functions: removing blood stasis, relieving pain, cooling blood, and reducing swelling. Indications: Treatment of blood stasis, amenorrhea, hernia accumulation, abdominal pain, hypochondriac pain, epistaxis, bloody dysentery, intestinal bleeding, red eyes, carbuncles, and injuries from falls.
White peony root: cool in nature, bitter in taste, slightly cold, has the functions of nourishing blood, calming liver yang, softening liver and relieving pain, astringing yin and stopping sweating, etc. It is suitable for treating yin deficiency, fever, irregular menstruation, Symptoms include pain in the chest, abdomen, and ribs, contracture of limbs, diarrhea, abdominal pain, spontaneous sweating, uterine bleeding, and leucorrhea.