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What are the effects of peony?
What are the effects of peony?

What are the effects of white peony root? This kind of food has high medicinal value because it can be seen everywhere in daily life. We can also soak it in water and drink it in moderation. Let me tell you about the effects of Paeonia lactiflora. Let's get to know each other.

What are the effects of white peony root? The efficacy and function of 1 Paeonia lactiflora.

1, the effect on cardiovascular system

Dilating coronary artery and lowering blood pressure. D- catechin and ethyl gallate have antithrombotic and antiplatelet aggregation effects.

2. Liver protection

It has obvious protective effect on liver injury caused by carbon tetrachloride, aflatoxin B 1 and D- galactosamine.

3, spasmolytic effect

It can inhibit the movement of intestine and in situ stomach, and significantly resist the uterine contraction caused by oxytocin.

4. analgesic effect

It can inhibit writhing, screaming and hot plate reaction in mice and resist convulsion caused by pentylenetetrazol.

5. Beauty function

Paeonia lactiflora has the function of beauty and skin care and is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine.

Paeonia lactiflora is cool, bitter and slightly cold, and has the effects of calming the liver and relieving pain, nourishing blood and softening the liver, and astringing yin and sweating.

Radix Paeoniae Alba can be used to treat fever due to yin deficiency, irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia, diarrhea, abdominal pain, hypochondriac pain in chest and abdomen, etc.

Peony should be eaten. Eating more peony can improve the coldness of women, avoid menstrual pain, and relieve the pain of cholecystitis and gallstones. And it is more suitable for patients with limb cramps and restless leg syndrome.

Paeonia lactiflora can nourish blood, soften liver, relieve pain, astringe yin and sweat.

Paeonia lactiflora can treat chest pain, diarrhea and abdominal pain, spontaneous sweating and night sweats, fever due to yin deficiency, irregular menstruation and metrorrhagia and leukorrhagia. With licorice, it can relieve various pains in the chest, abdomen and limbs.

What are the effects of peony? Paeonia lactiflora is a famous traditional Chinese medicine with a long history of application. It was recorded for the first time in Shennong Materia Medica in the Eastern Han Dynasty and listed as a national medicine. It is recorded as "controlling pathogenic abdominal pain, removing blood stasis and resolving hard mass, resolving cold and heat hernia, relieving pain, facilitating urination and benefiting qi". Traditional Chinese medicine health care points out that Paeonia lactiflora is sweet and astringent, bitter and slightly cold, and enters the liver and spleen meridians. It not only nourishes blood, regulates menstruation, softens liver and relieves pain, but also nourishes yin, stops sweating, calms liver yang and slightly clears heat. It is mainly used to treat yin deficiency and blood deficiency, liver hyperactivity, physical weakness and hyperhidrosis.

The efficacy and function of Paeonia lactiflora are also recorded in ancient books, which can be summarized into ten functions:

1, Compendium of Materia Medica: "Slow down the middle and relieve pain";

2. Compendium of Materia Medica: "Benefiting spleen, purging wood, regulating blood", "calming spleen meridian and collecting stomach qi";

3, "Materia Medica": "Sour cold can cool blood and replenish blood";

4, "Drug Meaning": "Nourishing yin and calming the liver can tonify the middle energizer and stop diarrhea and diarrhea";

5, "Yu Shu Yao Jie": "Shugan, cut the spleen and stomach";

6. "Daming Herbal Medicine": "purging the liver and calming the spleen and lungs";

7. "Herbal Justice": "Strengthening the spleen and softening the liver";

8. Materia Medica justice: "nourishing yin and nourishing blood", "consolidating qi and regulating blood, collecting yin and neutralizing qi";

9, "Notes on Treatise on Febrile Diseases": "Sour harvest, astringent fluid, beneficial glory"; "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica": "Sweating out";

10, TCM: Gan Ping.

Traditional Chinese medicine health care summarizes the above ten functions as treating liver and spleen, relieving pain, nourishing blood and astringing yin.

In the practical application process, the common functions of Paeonia lactiflora are:

1, used for irregular menstruation, menstrual abdominal pain, metrorrhagia, spontaneous sweating and night sweats.

Paeonia lactiflora can nourish blood and astringe yin and treat gynecological diseases. It is often used in combination with Chinese angelica, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata and Rhizoma Chuanxiong.

The compatibility of Paeonia lactiflora and Cinnamomum cassia twig can harmonize ying and Wei, and can be used to treat exogenous wind-cold, exterior deficiency, spontaneous sweating and evil wind.

Radix Paeoniae Alba, Os Draconis, Concha Ostreae, Floating Wheat, etc. are also used to astringe yin and subdue yang, and treat spontaneous sweating and night sweats caused by yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity.

2. Used for hypochondriac pain, abdominal pain, and hand and foot contracture pain caused by disharmony between liver and qi.

Paeonia lactiflora has the functions of nourishing blood, softening liver, promoting qi circulation and relieving pain, so it can be used for chest pain, abdominal pain, hand and foot contracture caused by disharmony between liver and qi.

Compatibility of Radix Paeoniae Alba and Radix Glycyrrhizae can treat hypochondriac pain;

Paeonia lactiflora, Bupleurum chinense and Fructus Aurantii are also used to treat abdominal pain and hand and foot contracture.

Paeonia lactiflora, Rhizoma Coptidis and Radix Aucklandiae are also used to treat dysentery and abdominal pain.

3. Used for headache and dizziness caused by hyperactivity of liver yang.

Radix Paeoniae Alba, when used raw, can astringe yin and calm liver yang, so it can be used for headache and dizziness caused by hyperactivity of liver yang, and can be used equally with mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum, Uncaria rhynchophylla and Tribulus terrestris.

4. Beauty and nourishing blood

Traditional Chinese medicine points out that Paeonia lactiflora has the function of nourishing blood and can treat sallow complexion, facial spots and dull complexion. It can moisturize and whiten skin when used together with Atractylodes macrocephala and Poria, and delay aging when eaten together with Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch.