What are the effects, functions and methods of consumption of red peony root?

Red peony root is a common Chinese medicinal material. Do you know its effects and how to eat it? Red peony root is recorded in many ancient medical books. It can treat abdominal pain, bloody diarrhea, and amenorrhea. You can learn about its common prescriptions.

1. The role and efficacy of Chinese medicine red peony root

① "Ben Jing": It can treat abdominal pain caused by evil qi, eliminate blood stasis, break up hard masses, treat cold and heat hernia, relieve pain, promote urination, and invigorate qi.

② "Bie Lu": It can unblock blood vessels, relieve stomachache, disperse bad blood, expel evil blood, remove water vapor, benefit the bladder and large and small intestines, eliminate carbuncle and swelling, relieve seasonal chills and fever, and relieve abdominal pain and back pain caused by stomachache.

③ "Materia Medica": Treats lung evil qi, abdominal pain, blood and qi accumulation, clears the internal organs and relieves qi accumulation, treats evil pain and blood stagnation, cures seasonal diseases and bone heat, strengthens the five internal organs, replenishes kidney qi, treats heart and abdomen hardness and swelling, blood stasis in women, eliminates blood stasis, and can erode pus.

④ "Rihuazi Bencao": Treats wind and replenishes fatigue, cures all diseases of women and various diseases before and after childbirth, regulates menstruation, reduces fever and relieves restlessness, and replenishes qi

, epidemic heat diseases, plague, malaria, convulsions and madness, blood circulation in women, and intestinal wind and bloody diarrhea; hemorrhoids, fistulas, back hair, sores and scabies, headaches, bright eyesight, red eyes, and pterygium.

⑤ "Kaibao Materia Medica": Another version notes that it can promote urination and relieve gas.

⑥ "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": It can relieve spleen fire, lower qi, promote blood circulation, break up blood stasis, disperse blood clots, stop abdominal pain, reduce blood fever, attack carbuncles, and treat scabies.

⑦ "Pharmaceutical Chemistry": Relieve liver fire.

2. Prescription of Chinese herbal medicine red peony root

1. To treat dysentery with unbearable abdominal pain: 100g of red peony root and 100g of phellodendron (mix with honey, apply and roast until completely ground). Pound and sieve the above medicines into powder. Take 15 grams each time. Boil it with a medium cup of light starch water until it is reduced to 50% boiled. Remove the residue and take it at any time while it is slightly warm. (Red Peony Powder from Taiping Shenghui Fang)

2. Treatment of abdominal pain caused by bloody diarrhea: 50 grams each of red peony root, phellodendron amurense (peeled and roasted), and sanguisorba officinalis. Pound and sieve the above three ingredients, take 15 grams each time, add a cup of rice water, boil until seven parts are left, remove the residue, and take it warm at any time. (Peony Decoction from Shengji Zonglu)

3. Treatment of five types of stranguria: 50 grams of red peony root and one betel nut (wrapped in flour and stewed). Grind the above ingredients into powder, take 5g each time, decoct in water and drink on an empty stomach. (Boji Fang)

4. Treatment of acute mastitis: 50-100 grams of red peony root and 10 grams of raw licorice. Decoction in water. If fever occurs, add Scutellaria baicalensis and use the root of Bletilla striata and a little salt to mash and apply to the affected area. (Selected Investigation Materials on Single-ingredient Prescriptions)

5. Treatment of women's hemorrhage and leucorrhea: Cyperus rotundus and red peony root. Take equal parts of the above ingredients, grind them into powder, add a pinch of salt and two cups of water, boil until only one cup remains, remove the residue and drink before meals. (Rushensan from Taiping Shenghuifang)