What is the difference between white peony and red peony in Chinese herbal medicine

The traditional Chinese medicine peony is used as a medicine with its root, and it is divided into red peony and white peony. Red peony has a bitter taste, cool nature, has the effect of removing blood stasis, relieving pain, cooling blood, reducing swelling, and has a good effect on intestinal wind, menstrual irregularities, self-perspiration and night sweats, eye redness and swelling pain, abdominal pain, hypochondria and other symptoms. Pharmacological analysis showed that peony contains paeoniflorin, benzoic acid, volatile oil, resin, sugar, starch, etc., which have inhibitory effects on dysentery bacilli and staphylococcus, and have analgesic, sedative and anticonvulsant effects.

White peony is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Peonyaceae, the root of which has its outer skin removed. Cold, the effect is basically the same as that of red peony, traditionally used for yin deficiency and fever, self-perspiration and night sweats, dizziness, headache, chest and flank pain, dysentery abdominal pain, appendicitis abdominal pain, gastrocnemius spasm, dysmenorrhea and menstrual irregularities.

Modern pharmacological studies have found that the main active ingredient of white peony is peony glycosides. This ingredient has a variety of effects such as increasing coronary flow, improving myocardial blood injection, dilating blood vessels, combating acute myocardial ischemia, inhibiting platelet aggregation, sedation, analgesia, analgesic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcer, etc.; In particular, it has a good effect on enhancing the body's immune function. Further studies have shown that white peony has a protective effect on liver macrophage damage, which can increase the phagocytosis of abdominal macrophages by 30%, so it can enhance the body's resistance.

At the same time, it is also confirmed that fried white peony mainly nourishes blood, and raw white peony mainly flattens the liver.

Red peony: medicinal properties: bitter, slightly cold. Return to the liver meridian.

Efficacy: Clears heat and cools blood, dissipates stasis and relieves pain.

Apply; Warm poison spots, blood heat vomiting.

The eyes are swollen and painful, carbuncles swollen and sores.

Liver depression and flank pain, amenorrhea dysmenorrhea, abdominal pain, bruises.

White peony: medicinal properties: bitter, sour, slightly cold. Return to the liver and spleen meridians.

Efficacy: Nourishing blood and reducing yin, softening the liver and relieving pain, and calming liver yang.

Application: liver blood deficiency, menstrual irregularity;

Liver and spleen disharmony, chest and flank abdominal pain, and acute pain in the limbs.

Liver yang is hyperactive, headache and dizziness.

Siwu soup: angelica (10g).

Chuanxiong (8g).

White peony (12g).

Cooked dried rehmannia (12g).

Function: replenish blood and regulate blood.

White peony and red peony are both common Chinese herbal plants, both have certain medicinal and edible value, do you know the difference between red peony and white peony? Below I recommend some knowledge of the difference between white peony and red peony, I hope you will be useful.

Peony is divided into "white and red" in traditional Chinese medicine. In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is said: "White peony medicine is good for the spleen and can laxative wood in the soil; Red peony medicine disperses evil spirits and can carry out stagnation in blood.

In modern times, those who bloom white flowers are white peony, and those who bloom red flowers are red peony. White peony is mostly cultivated at home, and red peony is mostly wild, the two are plants of the same family, and there is no big difference in the appearance of their roots, so they are collectively called peony before the Six Dynasties.

White peony and red peony, in terms of modern Chinese medicine pharmacology, are two completely different Chinese herbal medicines. However, from a botanical point of view, white peony and red peony belong to the same family of plants, that is, the ranunculaceae, and they are almost the same species, which can be described as the original family. Today we will distinguish between white peony and red peony.

White peony and red peony are very different in appearance. The "white" character of white peony is obvious, and the quality is also white and smooth, and the section is a hard powder state with luster.

The red peony not only has a black-brown appearance, but its cross-section also corresponds to the deficit, and the red color is brown.

The red and white two peonyes were originally of the same ancestry, why did they become two varieties with different faces? It turns out that the root of the problem lies in the fact that white peony is artificially cultivated and processed by a certain origin, while red peony is mostly a wild variety.

1. The efficacy of red peony.

1. It has an inhibitory effect on blood coagulation: red peony can significantly prolong the thrombosis time, shorten the length and reduce the weight.

2. Reduce blood lipids: 5g (crude drug) kg of red peony extract tablets, taken once a day for 10-15 weeks, can significantly reduce high fat.

3. Regulation of T lymphocytes: Experiments have proved that it can significantly improve the transformation of T lymphocytes in normal mice.

4. Anti-inflammatory: Paeonol contained in red peony has a strong anti-inflammatory effect. It has a significant inhibitory effect on capillary hyperpermeability, exudation and edema and immune inflammation caused by a variety of inflammatory agents.

Second, the efficacy of white peony.

1. Effect on the cardiovascular system: dilate the coronary arteries and lower blood pressure.

2. Liver protection effect: it has obvious protective effect on liver damage caused by carbon tetrachloride, aflatoxin B1 and D-galactosamine.

3. Antispasmodic effect: it has an inhibitory effect on intestinal tract and gastric motility in place, and significantly resists oxytocin-induced uterine contractions.

4. Analgesic effect: it can inhibit the writhing, hissing and hot plate reaction of mice, have a synergistic effect on morphine inhibition of the writhing reaction, and can resist the convulsions caused by pentpentatetrazole.

White peony is the dried root of the Ranunculaceae plant peony; Red peony is the dried root of the ranunculaceae plant Peony and Sichuan red peony. That is, the source plants of the big disadvantage chain have one of the same. Harvesting and processing:

White peony, harvested in summer and autumn, washed, remove the head and tail and fibrous roots, boiled in boiling water until thorough, remove the skin or peel after boiling, and then boil and dry; Red peony is dug in spring and autumn, and the rhizomes, fibrous roots and sediment are removed, and dried in the sun. That is, the harvesting and processing are not the same.

1. Botanically it belongs to the same peony species, which is different from traditional Chinese medicine.

Botanically speaking, Paeonia alba and Paeonia red belong to the different varieties of peony, which are very similar and have different flower colors. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, in the early days, there was no distinction between white peony and red peony, and then the separation of brother Shen gradually became clear, and the processing methods of white peony and red peony were different, suitable for different symptoms.

2. White peony: Botanically, white peony is a peony with white flowers; In terms of traditional Chinese medicine, there are 7 ways to distinguish white peony and red peony in ancient times, but the method is not very accurate and feasible, combined with modern Chinese medicine and the basis of comprehensive ancient experience, the method of distinction is: artificially cultivated, peeled, boiled white peony.

Red peony: Botanically, white peony is a peony with red flowers; In traditional Chinese medicine, combined with the foundations of modern Chinese medicine and comprehensive ancient experience, red peony is wild and unskinned.

3 White peony: The main distinguishing point of the year is that the white peony is partial to supplement, close, collect yin and benefit Kan, and the main supplement is not leaked.

Red peony: Red peony is partial to diarrhea, scattering, scattering evil blood, breaking accumulation and diarrhea.

4 White peony and red peony both belong to the peony species, in traditional Chinese medicine, both are made of peony root, both taste bitter and sour, both have the effect of nourishing the liver and nourishing blood, collecting the liver to stop bleeding and relieving pain.