【Press】Peony flower is the national flower of the mainland, the status of the chinese people is very high, at the same time it also has a twin sister: peony flower, and called "two flowers in the flower", "valley rain to see peony, Lixia to see peony", this season is a good season to watch peony peony, everyone do not miss. At the same time, peony and peony are also two medicinal materials commonly used in clinical practice, which have high clinical use value and are often used together to escort our health.
【Peony peony is a flower, which part is used for medicinal purposes, is it a root or a stem?】 】
Peony and peony as ornamental plants, clinical medicine is not the use of flowers, but the root of peony, peony is the use of its root bark, called peony peel.
【Peony is divided into white peony and red peony, is it a different flower color variety?】 】
Peony into the medicine, is the root of the herb of the family Pinus spp., the pharmacy divides the peony into white peony and red peony, the two effects have similarities, but there is also a difference, and in ancient times there was no difference between white peony and red peony, only peony. It was not until after the Tang and Song dynasties that the peony was gradually divided into red peony and white peony.
White peony and red peony are not distinguished by the difference of flowers, and at present, the wild is not peeled and dried as a red peony, and the cultivated peeled and dried is a white peony; as Zhang Xichun said: "The white peony is from the south, hangzhou is the best, its color is white and slightly red, and its skin is red and slightly heavy... Red peony comes from the three northern Kanto regions, all of which are found in each mountain, and the flesh is red and the skin is red."
【What are the similarities and differences between the efficacy of white peony and red peony?】 】
White peony and red peony have the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood and regulating menstruation; the effect of red peony is more focused on dispersing stasis and relieving pain; while white peony is more focused on suppressing yin and soft liver and relieving sweat.
As Cheng Wuji said: "white supplement and red diarrhea, white harvest and red dispersion", which briefly says the difference between the two, in fact, these two drugs in the clinical use of diarrhea in the supplement, scatter in the harvest, each has its own focus.
The efficacy of peony peel is also based on clearing heat and cool blood, activating blood stasis, cool blood desmoting, the same as buttercup plants, peony skin and red white peony are often used for use, enhancing the clinical efficacy.
【In the famous recipes of traditional Chinese medicine, peony and peony are commonly used】
1, Guizhi Poria pills: by peony peel, peony, peach kernel, guizhi, poria together, this is the classic gynecological blood activation stasis, mainly for less abdominal pain with lumps, or dizziness, insomnia, manic heat, skin nail error symptoms, this prescription is often used for gynecological diseases such as menstrual irregularities, dysmenorrhea, uterine fibroids, adnexitis treatment.
2, Wenjing soup: containing peony skin, peony medicine, with evodia, angelica, Sichuan root, ginseng, guizhi, ejiao, ginger, half summer, licorice, wheat dong and other drugs, Wenjing soup can treat women's body weakness with congestion and fever and other diseases, peony peel and peony in which to play a cool blood stasis and nourish the blood, cool, but also can prevent the drawbacks of other warm tonic drugs dry heat.
3, rhinoceros yellow soup: composed of peony skin, peony medicine with rhino horn, raw ground yellow, can treat warm fever fever into the blood evidence, peony skin and peony mainly play a cool serum heat, blood stasis effect, often used for high fever dizziness, subcutaneous purpura and other diseases of treatment.
【The Classic Story of Peony】
Legend has it that the divine physician Hua Tuo opened a medicinal garden in his back house, and carefully tasted each medicine to find out the medicinal properties, and a foreigner gave Hua Tuo a peony and planted it in the garden, after Hua Tuo tasted the peony flowers and leaves. If you feel ordinary, you don't think so.
Until one night, Hua Tuo was reading a book under the lamp, overheard a woman crying, Hua Tuo accidentally pushed the door out but there was no one in sight, only to see the peony, Hua Tuo told his wife about this, the wife looked at the peony outside the window and said: "Every grass and tree here is a good medicine, only this peony is left out in the cold by you, he naturally feels wronged." ”
A few days later, Mrs. Hua Tuo's blood collapsed abdominal pain, the medication was ineffective, he concealed her husband to dig up the peony root, decoct the water to take, soon the abdominal pain stopped, she told Hua Tuo about this matter, Hua Tuo did a meticulous study of peony, found that peony does have a good effect of relieving pain and regulating menstruation.
【Ancient Texts on Peony Peony Medicine】
"Compendium of Materia Medica": "Peony medicine is still about also, the flower beauty is good, this grass is graceful, so it is named." ”
"Compendium of Materia Medica": "White peony medicine is beneficial to the spleen and can spread wood in the soil; red peony medicine can spread evil and can perform stagnation in the blood." ”
Compendium of Materia Medica: "Harmony blood, raw blood, cool blood." Cure the fire in the blood, remove the annoying heat. ”