Alias white peony herb, Hang Paeonia lactiflora, Chuan Paeonia lactiflora, Hao Paeonia lactiflora.

Morphological features perennial herb, 40-80 cm high. The root is plump, cylindrical, with black-brown or brownish-yellow surface, and the stem is erect, smooth and glabrous. Leaves alternate, lower stem leaves, leaflets narrowly ovate, elliptic or lanceolate, apical tip, base cuneate, leaf surface glabrous. May to June flowering, flowers large and beautiful, white, sometimes with dark purple or red patches, several born at the top of the branch or branch end, petals obovate. fruits in August, fruit consists of 3 to 5 small divided fruits, glabrous, the apex of the hook-shaped outward curved. Roots can be used as medicine, summer and fall harvest, pot boiled until no hard heart and then remove the outer skin, or first remove the outer skin and then boiled, dried in the sun for spare.

Growing environment in most parts of the country have distribution. It is mostly found on mountain slopes, bushes, and under forests.

Effective flavor taste bitter, sour, slightly cold. It calms the liver and relieves pain, nourishes blood and regulates menstruation, astringes yin and stops sweating.

Selected RecipesThe first formula: appropriate amount of white peony, mixed with licorice at a dose of 2:1.

Use: *** to fine powder. Each time 30 grams of finely powdered add 120 ml of water and boil for 3 to 5 minutes. Clarify and take warm, 1 to 2 times a day. Usually the effect is obvious 30 to 100 minutes after the medicine.

Treatment: bronchial asthma. Second formula: 10 grams of white peony, 10 grams of Angelica sinensis, 10 grams of Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, 10 grams of Cyperus rotundus, 3 grams of Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong.

Use: Decoction with water.

Treatment: irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea. Third Party: 10g of white peony, 10g of scutellaria baicalensis, 5g of licorice.

Use: Decoction with water.

Treatment: dysentery and abdominal pain. Fourth formula: 15 grams of white peony, 15 grams of capsicum, 6 grams of rosmarinus officinalis root.

Use: Decoction with water.

Treatment: liver-exuberant headache, blurred eyes and dizziness, high blood pressure. Fifth formula: 15 grams of white peony, 5 grams of licorice.

Use: Decoction with water.

Treatment: painful spasm of gastrocnemius muscle (calf muscle), painful spasm of abdominal muscle. Formula 6: 10 grams of white peony, 10 grams of windproof, 10 grams of atractylodes, 6 grams of tangerine peel.

Use: Decoction with water.

Treatment: chronic enteritis, abdominal pain, diarrhea. Seventh formula: 24-40 grams of raw white peony.

Use: Take the above medicine, add 10 to 15 grams of raw licorice and decoct with water. Take orally, 1 dose daily.

Treatment: habitual constipation.