What does false peony root look like?

There are two types of peony flowers, one is red peony and the other is white peony, both of which use roots as medicine. Red peony root is generally used in its natural form, and has stronger effects on promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. It mainly functions to clear away heat, cool blood, remove blood stasis and relieve pain. Therefore, the effects of white peony root in clearing heat, detoxifying, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis are stronger than those of red peony root. Red peony root is boiled, then processed, dried and sliced. Therefore, the red peony root needs to be peeled and the epidermis removed. The effect is relatively mild, and it becomes the main effect of nourishing qi, nourishing blood, astringing yin, softening the liver and relieving pain, that is, nourishing blood and qi. White peony root is mainly used to dissolve blood stasis, while red peony root is mainly used to replenish blood and qi, but both have analgesic effects. Red peony root is used to soften tendons or liver, nourish yin and relieve pain; while white peony root is used to resolve blood stasis, remove blood stasis, and clear swelling to relieve pain. For example, white peony root and red peony root can be used for gynecological menstrual disorders, dysmenorrhea, liver depression and kidney deficiency, as well as blood stasis and swelling or deficiency of both qi and blood.

1. Invigorating Qi and nourishing blood and regulating menstruation: In clinical medicine, it can be used to treat pale complexion, dizziness, palpitations caused by deficiency of Qi and blood, as well as menstrual disorders, metrorrhagia, and thin menstruation in women. 2. Protecting the liver and clearing the eyes: Peony flowers can be used to treat abdominal pain, diarrhea, and yin and blood deficiency caused by spleen deficiency and liver hyperactivity. It can also be used to treat headaches, dizziness, red and swollen eyes, blurred vision, etc. caused by hyperactivity of liver yang. 3. Improve the body's immune ability: Peony flowers can promote the phagocytic function of macrophages and have a certain inhibitory effect on pathogens.

Peony flowers are divided into red peony flowers and white peony flowers. Red peony root tastes slightly bitter and sour, is cold in nature, and enters the liver and spleen meridians. It has the effects of nourishing blood, replenishing qi, astringing yin, softening the liver and relieving pain, nourishing yang and calming the liver. It can be used to treat irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, and metrorrhagia due to deficiency of both Qi and blood; night sweats; chest and flank abdominal distension and pain caused by liver fire disharmony; headaches and dizziness caused by insufficient liver yin and hyperactivity of liver yang. White peony root tastes slightly bitter and is cold in nature. It has the effects of clearing heat and cooling blood, removing stasis and relieving pain, and clearing heat and removing fire.

White peony root can be used to treat chills and rashes caused by heat entering the blood due to febrile diseases, as well as vomiting blood and nosebleeds caused by blood heat. It can also be used to treat blood stasis, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, and swelling and pain caused by bruises and blood stasis. It can also be used to treat red eyes, distension and pain in the ribs, and carbuncles and sores.