White peony white peony is the root of the plant Raeonialactiflorapall. Mainly produced in Zhejiang, Anhui, Sichuan and other places. Harvested in summer and fall, remove the soil and branch roots, peeled, boiled water or slightly boiled until evenly heated, dried in the sun. When used, moistened through the slices. Generally used raw or wine fried or stir-fried.
Bitter, sour, slightly cold. Attributed to the liver and spleen meridians.
Effects Nourishing blood and astringing Yin, softening the liver and relieving pain, and calming liver-yang.
Applications
1. Deficiency of liver and blood and menstrual disorders due to blood deficiency. This taste acid, astringent liver yin to nourish blood, often used with the cooked ground, angelica, etc., with the treatment of liver blood deficiency, pale, dizziness, palpitations, or menstrual irregularities, leakage in the crash, such as the four things soup ("and dosage Bureau of the formula"). If there is heat in blood deficiency and irregular menstruation, it can be combined with Scutellaria baicalensis, Cyperus rotundus, and Fructus schisandrae, as in Bao Yin Decoction ("Jing Yue Quanshu"); if there is leakage in collapse and leakage, it can be used in combination with Colla Corii Asini and Ai Ye Ye.
2. Liver and spleen disharmony of chest, hypochondrium and abdominal pain or limb contracture pain. This product acid convergence of liver yin, nourishing blood soft liver and pain, often with Chaihu, Angelica sinensis, white peony, etc., the treatment of blood deficiency and depression of the liver, coercive and rib pain, such as the loose loose loose loose powder ("and dosage Bureau Square"); can also be used to regulate the liver and the spleen, soft liver pain, with atractylodes macrocephala, antifungal, Chen Pi used with the treatment of deficiency of the spleen and liver exuberant abdominal pain and diarrhea, such as pain and diarrhea to be square ("Jingyue quanquan"); if used with xylin, Huanglian, and so on, the treatment of dysentery abdominal pain, such as paeoniflorum soup ("the"). Suwen disease qi yi bao life set"); if the Yin blood deficiency tendon and vein loss of nourishment caused by contracture of the hands and feet for pain, often with licorice to ease the pain, that is, peony and licorice soup ("Typhoid Fever").
3. Headache and dizziness caused by hyperactivity of liver yang. The product is used to nourish blood, astringent Yin, calm liver Yang, often with hyssop, ochre, dragon bone, oyster, etc., such as Zhen Liver Resting Wind Soup, Jian Tiling Soup ("Medical Zhong Zhi Zhong San Xi Lu")
In addition, the product astringent Yin, has the effect of stopping sweating. If the external wind-cold, Yingwei and the sweating of the wind, can be convergence of yin and Ying, and warming the yang Gui Zhi, etc., in order to reconcile Yingwei, such as Gui Zhi Tang ("The Treatise on Typhoid Fever"); as for the yin deficiency of the night sweating, it must be used with the bones of the dragon, oysters, floating wheat, etc., to convergence of yin to stop sweating effect.
Use and dosage decoction, 5 to 15g; large doses of 15 to 30g.
Identification of white peony and red peony "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" is not divided, commonly known as peony, the end of the Tang and early Sung, began to distinguish between the two. Although the two are the same thing and the nature of the cold, but the former said, "white fill red diarrhea, white collection of red scattered", a word and broke the main difference between the two. It is generally believed that, in terms of efficacy, white peony is long in nourishing the blood and regulating menstruation, astringent yin to stop sweating, and suppressing liver yang; red peony is long in clearing away heat and cooling the blood, activating the blood to dissipate blood stasis, and clearing away liver fire. In terms of application, white peony is mainly used for treating blood deficiency and yin deficiency, and liver yang hyperactivity; red peony is mainly used for treating blood heat, blood stasis and liver fire. Both white peony and red peony can relieve pain and can be used to treat painful conditions. However, white peony is long for nourishing blood and soft liver, relieve pain, the main treatment of liver yin deficiency, blood deficiency liver, liver qi uncomfortable due to coercive pain, epigastric and abdominal limbs contracture pain; and red peony is long for blood to eliminate stasis pain, the main treatment of stagnation of the pain, because it can be clear heat and cool the blood, so the blood-heat stagnation of the person is particularly suitable.
The use of attention to the evidence of Yang weakness and cold should not be used. The anti-veratrum.
Ancient Summary
1. "Shennong Ben Cao Jing": "Main evil abdominal pain, relieve pain, facilitate urination, benefit qi."
2. "Materia Medica Seeking Truth": "Red peony and white peony are slightly the same as the main treatment, but the white has the power of astringent Yin and Ying Ying, the red stops the meaning of dispersal of evil blood; white can be diarrhea wood in the earth, the red can be in the blood in the living stagnation."
Modern research
1. Chemical composition: white peony contains paeoniflorin, paeoniflorin, peony phenol paeoniflorin, also contains paeoniflorin lactone, benzoic acid and so on. In addition, it also contains volatile oil, fatty oil, resin sugar, starch, mucilage, protein and triterpenoid components.
2. Pharmacological effects: White peony decoction fed to mice peritoneal macrophage percentage and phagocytic index are significantly higher than the control group. White peony can promote the phagocytosis of abdominal macrophages in mice. White peony decoction could antagonize the inhibitory effect of cyclophosphamide on peripheral T lymphocytes of mice and restore them to the normal level, indicating that white peony could restore the cellular immune function in the depressed state to normal. White peony extract has obvious inhibitory effect on rat egg white acute inflammatory edema, and inhibits the proliferation of cotton ball granuloma. Paeonia lactiflora has obvious analgesic effect on acetic acid-induced torsion reaction, and in combination with the methanol complex of licorice, both of them have synergistic analgesic effect on acetic acid torsion reaction. Paeoniflorin, the main component in Paeonia lactiflora, has a good antispasmodic effect.
3. Clinical studies: Hangzhou peony, hot licorice decoction. Upper limb muscle pain plus gui zhi, elongation grass; lower limb muscle pain plus continuity, hyssop; shoulder, back, neck and neck muscle pain plus Pueraria lobata, Chuanxiong; chest and hypochondriac muscle pain plus Chai Hu, Platycodonopsis; abdominal muscle pain plus Fructus Forsythiae, Atractylodes Macrocephala for the treatment of muscular spasmodic syndromes (Yunnan Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1991, 12(11):20); white peony, sizzling licorice for the treatment of facial muscle twitching is effective (Journal of Combination of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine, 1991, 11(1):43).
Can pregnant women eat white peony
Pregnant women can eat white peony, white peony not only has the effect of replenishing qi and blood, it will actually bring more benefits to pregnant women. However, you need to eat properly, should not be excessive, otherwise it is easy to counterproductive will affect the pregnant woman and the fetus