White peony: bitter, sour, sweet, slightly cold; attributed to the liver and spleen meridians; can nourish blood, used for menstrual disorders caused by blood deficiency or yin deficiency with heat; it can also nourish the liver yin, regulate the liver qi, and pacify the liver yang, and is used for headache, vertigo, and pain in the coarseness and ribs caused by insufficient liver yin, liver qi, and hyperactivity of the liver yang;

It can astringent the yin, and the ying, stopping perspiration, and is used for yin deficiency night sweats, and the surface deficiency and spontaneous sweating caused by ying and guarding disharmony. It can also nourish blood and soften liver, disperse depression and dispel blood stasis, and strengthen the five organs. It is used to improve chloasma on the face, rough and aging skin, and treat freckles, chloasma and acne caused by endocrine disorders.

Expanded Information

Three White Soup, as recorded in the Ming Dynasty's medical work "Introduction to Medicine," is "5 grams of each of white peony, white atractylodes, and white Poria, 3 grams of licorice, decocted in water, and served warm. This formula can replenish qi and blood, whiten and moisturize the skin, and then spread in the folklore. This formula is well-matched and suitable for skin roughness, yellowish, chloasma, hyperpigmentation, freckles and acne caused by deficiency and coldness of qi and blood.

The Chinese medicine believes that the human skin is pleasant or not and the function of the internal organs has a close relationship, if the internal organs are diseased, the qi and blood are not harmonious, then the skin is rough and the face has spots. Therefore, the formula from the harmonization of qi and blood, regulating the function of the five viscera to promote metabolism, improve the body's immunity, inhibit acne on the face, delay skin aging. It nourishes the blood and softens the liver, so that the qi and blood are abundant and the face is rosy, thus whitening and removing spots.

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