Common Peony (Wild) Equivalent Plant: Paeonia Obovata, Paeonia Veitchii
Paeonia Lactiflora
Shao Yao

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Part(s) used

Root

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To clear heat and cool blood, quicken blood and dispel stasis.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Warm toxin macular eruption, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, intestinal wind bleeding, red eyes with gall, swollen welling abscess and sores, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, flooding and vaginal discharge with strangury-turbidity, pain in rib-side due to stagnation, mounting-conglomeration accumulation-gathering, knocks and falls.