Many people don't attach importance to the efficacy and function of peony bark. There are many kinds of effects and functions. Only when used correctly can its efficacy and function be fully exerted. This kind of food can soothe the nerves, and the efficacy and function of peony bark are essential for health care.

The efficacy and function of Cortex Moutan 1 Cortex Moutan, the name of traditional Chinese medicine. Dry root bark of Paeonia suffruticosa of Ranunculaceae. Produced in Anhui, Shandong and other places. Dig roots in autumn, remove fine roots, peel roots and dry them in the sun. Raw or fried. Compendium of Materia Medica: "Nourish yin to reduce fire, relieve spot poison, benefit throat, and relieve blood stagnation in stool."

Later generations used yellow tillers to cure fire, but I don't know that peony bark is better. Red flowers are beneficial, white flowers complement each other, and people are ignorant, so we should divide them. Modern research shows that paeonol and its glycosides have anti-inflammatory effects; The methanol extract of Paeonia suffruticosa has the effect of inhibiting platelets; Paeonol has sedative, cooling, antipyretic, analgesic, spasmolytic and other central inhibitory effects, as well as anti-atherosclerosis, diuretic, anti-ulcer and other effects.

Efficacy of Cortex Moutan

Clearing heat; Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Fever is mainly caused by heat entering the blood; Hair spots; Vomiting; In the later period, tears were full of evil heat and yin heat; Hot flashes due to bone steaming due to yin deficiency; Blood stasis amenorrhea; Dysmenorrhea; Carbuncle swelling and sore poison; Fall and get injured; Rheumatic rheumatism

Function of Cortex Moutan

1. Effect on cardiovascular system: Cortex Moutan can increase coronary blood flow, decrease cardiac output and reduce left ventricular work in anesthetized dogs. It has obvious protective effect on experimental myocardial ischemia for a long time and reduces myocardial oxygen consumption.

2. Effect on central nervous system: Paeonol has antipyretic effect on fever caused by oral typhoid and paratyphoid vaccines in mice and lowers the body temperature of normal mice. Oral paeonol can inhibit the writhing reaction and tail tenderness reaction caused by intraperitoneal injection of acetic acid in mice, resist the excessive exercise caused by caffeine and obviously prolong the sleep time caused by cyclohexylbarbital sodium in mice. At high dose, it can make the righting reflex disappear in mice, and can obviously resist convulsions caused by pentylenetetrazol, strychnine, nicotine and electroconvulsive. The site of action is the reticular structure of midbrain and thalamus.

3. Anti-inflammatory effect: Paeonol can inhibit the edema of rats' feet caused by dextran or acetic acid or carrageenan, inhibit the increase of capillary permeability in mice's abdominal cavity or guinea pig's skin caused by acetic acid or 5- hydroxytryptamine, and inhibit the occurrence of stress ulcer in mice.

4. Bacteriostasis: In vitro experiments show that the decoction of Cortex Moutan has a strong bacteriostatic effect on Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, Typhoid Bacillus, Paratyphoid Bacillus, Proteus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus, Hemolytic Streptococcus, Pneumococcus and Vibrio cholerae. Peony leaf decoction has obvious antibacterial effect on Shigella, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus, and its effective component is gallic acid.

5. Anticoagulant effect: In the in vitro experiment of human platelets, it was found that both the aqueous extract of Cortex Moutan and paeonol could inhibit arachidonic acid from producing thromboxane A2 on platelets, thus inhibiting platelet aggregation, which was due to the inhibition of arachidonic acid on cyclooxygenase reaction of prostate H2. The methanol extract of Cortex Moutan can inhibit the experimental thrombosis caused by endotoxin.

6. Effect on immune system: Mice were given paeonol, paeonol, paeoniflorin, paeoniflorin oxide and benzoyl paeoniflorin respectively, and intravenous injection could promote the clearance rate of carbon particles in blood, even if the function of mononuclear phagocyte system was in a low state. Microscopic examination showed that the phagocytosis of Kuhn cells in liver and macrophages in spleen was enhanced.

7. Effect on lipid metabolism: Cortex Moutan and paeonol and paeoniflorin contained in it can inhibit the lipolysis of adipocytes caused by adrenaline; The aqueous extract of Cortex Moutan can increase the fat produced by glucose in adipocytes, and obviously increase the fat produced by glucose induced by insulin.

Peony bark is suitable for people.

Use with caution for blood deficiency, cold syndrome, pregnant women and menorrhagia.

Therapeutic effect of cortex moutan

It tastes bitter, pungent and slightly cold. Heart, liver and kidney meridians. The fragrance dissipates and enters the blood.

Clearing heat and cooling blood, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Indications: fever with blood spots, hematemesis and epistaxis, convulsion and epilepsy, asthenia, hot flashes, bone steaming, restless mood, blood stasis, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, intestinal carbuncle and traumatic injury.

Efficacy and Function of Cortex Moutan 2 Efficacy and Function:

Peony bark belongs to the medicine of clearing heat and cooling blood. Its nature is bitter, pungent and slightly cold, and it enters the heart, liver and kidney meridians, and has the effects of clearing heat and cooling blood, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. The medicine can be used to treat febrile diseases and vomiting caused by blood heat in clinic. It can also be used to treat various diseases caused by deficiency-heat syndrome. In addition, it also has a certain therapeutic effect on amenorrhea dysmenorrhea, abdominal mass accumulation, traumatic injury, sores and intestinal carbuncle.

Clinical application:

The medicine can be used to treat the following diseases clinically:

1. This medicine can be used to treat febrile diseases and vomiting caused by blood heat. This medicine can not only cool blood and stop bleeding, but also promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. When in use, it can be used with Radix Rehmanniae and Radix Paeoniae Rubra for macula, hematemesis, nosebleed, etc. Caused by febrile diseases and heat entering the blood.

This medicine can be used to treat deficiency-heat syndrome. This medicine is an important medicine for treating anhidrosis. When in use, it can be used together with Artemisia annua and Carapax Trionycis. It is used for night fever, early cooling and hyperhidrosis caused by warm diseases. For internal heat due to yin deficiency and hot flashes due to bone steaming, it can be combined with Cortex Lycii.

3. This medicine can be used to treat amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, abdominal mass, traumatic injury, etc. When in use, it can be used together with Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Flos Carthami for amenorrhea and amenorrhea due to blood stasis. For abdominal mass accumulation, it can be combined with Guizhi and Poria. For traumatic injury, it can be combined with frankincense and myrrh.

This medicine can be used to treat sores and intestinal carbuncle. When in use, Flos Lonicerae and Herba Taraxaci can be used together for heat toxic sores and carbuncle. For abdominal pain caused by early intestinal carbuncle, rhubarb, peach kernel and mirabilite can be used together.

Modern significance:

Modern pharmacological research shows that the medicine has the functions of dredging menstruation, inhibiting platelet aggregation, resisting atherosclerosis, lowering blood pressure, resisting inflammation, calming, cooling, relieving fever, relieving pain and spasmolysis. It has a certain inhibitory effect on staphylococcus aureus, typhoid Bacillus and other pathogenic bacteria and pathogenic skin fungi. The modern application of this medicine can be used to treat primary thrombocytopenic purpura, hypertension, allergic rhinitis, acute eczema, gastric and duodenal ulcer, urinary calculi and other diseases.