Red Paeoniae Trichocarpae

Red Paeoniae Trichocarpae
Name
Red Paeoniae Trichocarpae
Latin Pharmaceutical Name
Paeoniae Radix Rubra
Chinese Name
赤芍
Category
Roots and rhizomes

Red Paeoniae TrichocarpaeMore Info

Production Regions
Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of northern east, and inner Mongolia.
Macroscopic Features
Cylindrical, slightly curved, 5~40cm long, 0.5~3cm diameter. Externally brown, rough, with longitudinal grooves and wrinkles, and with rootlet scars and horizontal raised lenticels, some skin easily falls off. Hard and brittle texture, easily broken; fractured surface is pink-white or pink-red. Cortex is narrow, xylem has radial striations; some with cracks. faintly aromatic odor, slightly bitter sour and astringent taste.
Quality Requirements
Superior medicinal material is thick and strong, with a white fractured surface and a very powdery nature.
Properties
Bitter; slightly cold.
Functions
Clears heat, cools the blood, disperses stasis, relieves pain. Unprocessed Chi shao is advanced on clearing heat and cooling the blood. Apply to body heat and bleeding due to warm-heat disease of heat into blood, red eye and swelling with pain, swollen carbuncles and sore toxin.
Technical Terms
'Messy skin and powdery break’: This refers to the thin outer skin of Chi shao, which is loose and easily falls off; the fractured surface is whitish pink and has a powdery nature. ‘Chrysanthemum center’: this refers to radial striations seen on the fractured surface of medicinal material, which have an appearance similar to an open chrysanthemum flower also called ‘chrysanthemum lines’ (ju hua wen).
Origin
The dried root of Paeonia lactiflora Pall. (Ranunculaceae).

Red Paeoniae TrichocarpaeHerbs in the formula

Yang-Supplementing and Five-Returning Decoction

Yang-Supplementing and Five-Returning Decoction

Action:Supplements qi, invigorates blood, and unblocks the collaterals.
Indication:Bu Yang Huan Wu Tang is indicated for wind-strike due to qi deficiency and blood stasis marked by hemiplegia, deviation of the mouth and eye, sluggish speech, involuntary salivation from the mouth, frequent urination or enuresis, a dark tongue body with a white coating, and a slow, weak pulse.
Blood Stasis-Expelling Decoction

Blood Stasis-Expelling Decoction

Action:Invigorates blood, dissolves stasis, and moves qi to relieve pain.
Indication:Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang is indicated for blood stasis in the chest. Symptoms include chest pain, headache, and chronic stabbing pain at a fixed location, continual hiccups or choking when drinking water, nausea, internal heat, dizziness, severe palpitations, insomnia, dreaminess, impatience, irascibility, tidal fever at night, dark lips or eyes, a dark red tongue with ecchymosis or purple spots, and a choppy or wiry, tight pulse.
Immortal Formula Life-Giving Beverage

Immortal Formula Life-Giving Beverage

Action:Clears heat, resolves toxins, disperses swelling, promotes suppuration, invigorates blood, and relieves pain.
Indication:This formula is indicated for yang patterns in the initial stage with sores, abscesses, and ulcers. The symptoms are redness, swelling, and pain in the affected areas, fear of cold with fever, a thin white or yellow tongue coating, and a forceful, rapid pulse.
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