Chinese herbal medicine red peony root

When using red peony root to treat diseases, it is important to effectively distinguish between red peony root and white peony root. Because red peony root and white peony root are two similar medicinal herbs, they have different medicinal effects on the human body. As a traditional Chinese medicinal material distributed on hillsides in most areas, red peony root is also relatively common in daily life. People who don’t know much about red peony root should familiarize themselves with its relevant pharmacological effects.

Red peony root is also called wood peony, grass peony, red peony, hairy red peony, etc. It tastes bitter and is slightly cold in nature. It enters the liver meridian. It has the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood, dispersing blood stasis and relieving pain. It is mainly used for heat in the blood, rash caused by warm poison, vomiting blood and epistaxis, red and swollen eyes, pain in the ribs caused by liver depression, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, abdominal pain caused by cravings, injuries caused by falls, carbuncles and ulcers. Stir-fried red peony root: After frying, the medicinal properties become milder, and it can promote blood circulation and relieve pain without hurting the middle part, and can be used for pain caused by blood stasis. Wine-boiled red peony root: It is good at promoting blood circulation and dispersing blood stasis, but its effect of clearing heat and cooling blood is relatively weak. It is mostly used for amenorrhea or dysmenorrhea, and traumatic injuries. Red peony root can be used together with raw rehmannia root, rhubarb, and white imperata root to treat vomiting and epistaxis due to blood heat. Red peony root can be used together with honeysuckle, radix trichosanthis, frankincense, etc. to treat excessive heat and toxicity, carbuncles, swellings and ulcers.

Red peony root is used together with angelica, chuanxiong, and Corydalis to treat symptoms such as blood stasis, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, and abdominal pain caused by abdominal masses. However, red peony root cannot be used together with Veratrum. Those with blood deficiency should take it with caution.

Red peony root has a long history of being used as medicine. It can be seen in many ancient pharmacological classics. For example, "Ben Jing" says: It can treat abdominal pain caused by evil spirits, eliminate blood stasis, break up hard masses, treat hernia caused by cold and heat, relieve pain, promote urination, and invigorate Qi. "Bielu": It can unblock blood vessels, relieve stomachache, disperse bad blood, expel evil blood, remove water vapor, benefit the bladder and large and small intestines, eliminate carbuncle and swelling, relieve seasonal chills and fever, and relieve abdominal pain and back pain.

"Materia Medica": It can treat lung evil qi, abdominal pain, blood and qi accumulation, clear the qi in the internal organs, treat evil pain and blood stagnation, cure seasonal diseases and bone heat, strengthen the five internal organs, replenish kidney qi, treat heart and abdomen hardness and swelling, blood stasis in women, eliminate blood stasis, and can corrode pus. "Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): It can treat wind and replenish fatigue, and is used to treat all diseases of women and various diseases before and after childbirth, regulate menstruation, reduce fever and relieve restlessness, invigorate Qi, treat epidemic heat diseases, plague, malaria, madness, blood circulation in women, intestinal wind and bloody diarrhea, hemorrhoids, fistula, back hair, sores, scabies, headache, improve eyesight, red eyes, and pterygium. wait.