The role of white peony root

White peony usually refers to white peony, which we also call white flower peony. White peony not only has good edible value but also medicinal value. As a traditional Chinese medicine, white peony has very high medicinal properties. White peony can regulate blood sugar. White peony has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory benefits. White peony can also replenish and nourish blood and has the effect of treating symptoms such as irregular menstruation and night sweats.

White peony root has a good analgesic effect. It can also protect our liver. In addition, it can protect our cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems and prevent high blood pressure.

Four major medical effects of white peony:

1. Effects on the cardiovascular system. Dilate coronary arteries and lower blood pressure (d-catechin and ethyl gallate have antithrombotic and antiplatelet aggregation effects)

2. Liver protecting effect. It has a significant protective effect on liver damage caused by carbon tetrachloride, aflatoxin B1, and D-galactosamine

3. Antispasmodic effect. It has an inhibitory effect on the motility of the intestine and the stomach in situ, and significantly counteracts the uterine contraction caused by oxytocin

4. Analgesic effect. It can inhibit the writhing, screaming, and hot plate reaction of mice, has a synergistic effect with morphine in inhibiting the writhing reaction, and can counteract the convulsions caused by pentylenetetrazol.

Medicinal properties

White peony root is cool in nature, bitter and sour in taste, and slightly cold. It has the effects of nourishing blood, calming liver yang, softening the liver and relieving pain. It has the effects of astringing yin and stopping sweating, and is suitable for symptoms such as yin deficiency fever, irregular menstruation, pain in the chest, abdomen and ribs, cramps in the limbs, diarrhea and abdominal pain, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, metrorrhagia, and leukorrhea.

Paeoniflorin has antibacterial, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, increases coronary artery flow, improves myocardial nutrition blood flow, dilates blood vessels, fights against acute myocardial ischemia, inhibits platelet aggregation, has sedative, analgesic, antispasmodic, anti-ulcer and blood sugar regulating effects. White peony root decoction can inhibit Shigella dysenteriae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhi, hemolytic Streptococcus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, etc.

Above we introduced what white peony is. We know that white peony is actually white peony medicine. White peony has very high edible value and medicinal value. The effects of white peony are very wide. We can use white peony to protect the liver and stomach, relieve pain, and prevent high blood pressure and high blood sugar. It can be seen that the effect of the traditional Chinese medicine white peony is very powerful.