The efficacy and function of mountain peony

Wild peony is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. It is very helpful to the human body in treating certain diseases. Moreover, this kind of medicine is also widely used. When choosing wild peony, you need to understand its efficacy, effects and contraindications. Let's take a look at it below.

[Other names] Kudzu vine, Kudzu root, and Dipsacus asper (List of Guangxi Medicinal Plants).

[Source] It is the root bark or the whole plant of the Convolvulaceae plant. Available all year round.

【Original form】 Fujimoto. The leaves are alternate, entire, ovate or broadly elliptic, 12 to 17 cm long, 8 to 13.5 cm wide, and densely covered with white silky hairs on the underside. The flowers are clustered, covered by bracts, with a peduncle, and 1 to 4 bunches of flowers; the corolla is funnel-shaped, white; there are 5 stamens, hidden inside; the ovary has 4 chambers, 2 stigmas, and is capitate.

[Habitat distribution] Growing in sparse forests in the mountains or roadside bushes. Distributed in Yunnan, Guangxi and other places.

[Properties and flavors] "Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine": "slightly astringent, warm."

【Functions and indications】 ① "Guangxi Medicinal Plant List": "The whole plant: bone-removing, hemostasis, tissue regeneration, astringent, heart-clearing, lung-moistening, cough-relieving. Treat internal injuries."

[Additional prescription] Treating anemia and dizziness: 2 to 3 liang of mountain peony root bark. Stew the meat. (Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine)

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] From "Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine"

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