| English
Name |
| Red
Peony Root |
| Chinese
Name |
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| Origin |
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Red
Peony Root is the dried root of Paeonia lactiflora
Pall. or Peaonia veitchii Lynch (Fam. Ranunculaceae) |
| Nature
and Affinity |
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It
is bitter to the taste, slightly cold in nature, and is distributed
to the Liver Channel. |
| Main
Active Ingredient |
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Paeoniflorin(C23H28O11) |
| Precaution |
| Incompatible
with Rhizoma et Radix Vertri. |
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Storage |
| Preserve
in a ventilate dry place. |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Cylindrical,
somewhat curved, 5-40 cm long, 0.5-3 cm in diameter. Externally
brown, rough, longitudinally furrowed and wrinkled, and showing
rootlet scars and transversely prominent lenticels, sometimes
the outer bark easily exfoliated. Texture hard and fragile,
easily broken, fratrure chalk-white or pink, bark narrow,
wood with distinct radial striations, sometimes with clefts.
Odour, slightly taste, somewhat bitter, sour and astringent.
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ACTION |
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To remove
heat from blood, to eliminate blood stasis, and to relieve pain. |
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INDICATIONS |
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Maculation
in epidemic diseases; spitting of blood, epistaxis; inflammation
of the eye; pain in the chest and costal regions; amenorrhea,
dysmenorrheal; mass formation in the abdomen; traumatic injuries;
boils and sores. |
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REFERENTIAL
ADVICE |
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1.Eliminating
heat from blood and promoting the circulation of the blood:
For the treatment of amenorrhea or dysmenorrhea due to blood-stasis
accompanied with invasion of blood by heat, it is often combined
with Radix Angelica Sinensis, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae,
Semen Persica, Flos Carthami, etc.; for carbuncles due to
blood heat, accompanied with congestion, swelling and pain,
with Radix Angelica Sinensis, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong,
Flos Lonicerae, Fructus Forsythiae, etc.; for spitting blood
or epistaxis or eruptions in dark color, due to blood-heat,
with Radix Rehmanniae, Cortex Moutan Radicis, etc.
2.Removing blood stasis and relieving pain:
For the treatment of mass in the abdomen due to blood stasis
or abdominal pain due to blood stasis after labor, it is often
combined with Radix Angelica Sinensis, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong,
etc.; for syndrome of remarkable blood stasis, with Semen
Persica, Flos Carthami; for abdominal pain after labor due
to blood stasis, with Rhizoma Zingiberis roasted in hot ashes
and drugs for warming the interior to promote the circulation
of blood; for injury due to accidents, accompanied with swelling
and pain due to blood stasis with Olibanum, Resina Commiphorae
Myrrhae, Radix Angelica Sinensis, Semen Persica, etc.
3.Reducing liver-heat to brighten vision:
For the treatment of red eyes due to liver-heat, it is often
combined with Flos Chrysanthemi, Herba Menthae, etc.
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