he source is from cortex of Paeonia suffruticoas Andr, family Ramunculaceae. The medicinal material is mainly produced in the provinces of Anhui, Shandong, etc., collected in autumn and dried in the sun. The crude or stir-baked one can be used.

Medicinal Properties:
Bitter and pungent in flavor and slightly cold in nature, and attributive to the heart, liver and kidney meridians.

Actions:
Clear away heat, cool and circulate the blood to remove blood stasis.

 

Application
1. It is used for blood heat syndrome manifested as maculae and papules, haematemesis and epistaxis and has the actions of cooling blood and arresting bleeding and can clear away heat from yingfen and xuefen as well.
2. It is used for febrile diseases injuring yin and fever due to yin deficiency. It can clear away latent pyrexia from yinfen, so it is often used in treatment of the syndrome of residual heat and consumption of the body fluids of seasonal febrile disease at the late stage manifested as fever at night and cool in the early morning, fever and bone steaming, fever bringing down with anhidrosis.
3. It is used for blood-stasis syndrome, and is especially suitable for stagnation of heat and stasis of blood. For amenorrhea due to stagnation of blood, dysmenorrhea, abdominal mass or traumatic injury.
4. It is used for carbuncle, pyocutaneous disease and swelling; for overabundance of heat with carbuncle and sore toxin.