The efficacy and effects of peony and contraindications

White peony is the dried root of the plant Paeonia lactiflora, mainly produced in Zhejiang, Anhui and other places. White peony is slightly cold in nature, bitter and sour in taste. It belongs to the liver and spleen meridians. It has the effect of nourishing blood, regulating menstruation, astringing yin and stopping sweating, softening the liver and relieving pain, and calming liver yang.

Nourishing blood and regulating menstruation

White peony is sour in taste and enters the liver meridian, favoring the Yin and Blood of the liver. It can be used to treat blood deficiency, dizziness and palpitations, or irregular menstruation, and menorrhagia.

Astringing Yin to stop sweating

White peony is sour in taste and can be collected, which has the function of astringing yin and stopping sweating. It can be used to treat symptoms such as sweating and vicious wind caused by external wind and cold and disharmony of Ying and Wei; it can also be used to treat symptoms such as spontaneous sweating caused by deficiency.

Softening the liver and relieving pain

It can be used to treat pain in the chest and ribs caused by blood deficiency and liver depression, abdominal pain and diarrhea caused by spleen deficiency and liver exuberance, as well as pain in the hands and feet caused by deficiency of yin and blood and loss of moistening of the meridians.

Calming Liver Yang

White peony can nourish blood and astringent yin and calm liver yang, and is commonly used to treat headaches and dizziness caused by hyperactivity of liver yang.

Improves immunity

Aqueous decoction of Bai Shao can enhance the phagocytosis of macrophages, have a significant inhibitory effect on acute inflammatory edema of rat egg white, inhibit the proliferation of cotton ball sarcomeres, and normalize cellular immunity that is in a depressed state.

Antispasmodic and analgesic

Paeonia lactiflora has obvious analgesic effect on acetic acid-induced torsion reaction, and paeoniflorin has good antispasmodic effect.

Contraindications to the use of peony

1, white peony is a cold product, has a sour cold astringent effect, so all external wind and cold, internal cold, spleen and stomach deficiency, kidney Yang deficiency and other evidence should not be used in large amounts or single flavor with 2, white peony is cold, Yang weakness and cold evidence such as dull abdominal distension, abdominal pain like warmth like press, mouth flooded with water, the limbs are not warm, or limbs heavy, or swelling around the body, loose and thin stools, deficiency cold diarrhea, dysentery pure blood, urine should be used with caution or not. 3, modern Chinese pharmacology confirmed that peony has obvious sedative effect, so coma patients should not be used, infants and the elderly should not be long-term use or overdose and a large number of individual use.

Contraindications to the combination of white peony

According to the eighteenth counterpart of traditional Chinese medicine, "all the ginseng and peony rebel against quinoa", so peony should not be used with quinoa.