Peony root

Peony root

(Wang Lianshi's collection of herbs)

Another name is Tu (a collection of compendium).

[source] it is the rhizome of Paeonia suffruticosa.

[plant morphology] peony with purse (Huajing), also known as Yuer Peony (Huajing) and huoxuecao (compendium Collection).

Perennial herbs, 30-60 cm high. The rhizome is stout. Leaves opposite, long petiolate; 3-pinnately compound, leaflets obovate, deeply lobed, base cuneate. Raceme terminal, peanut on one side, curving; pedicel with 2 bracts; sepals small, scaly, narrow oval; petals 4, crisscross into 2 layers, outer layer slightly united into a heart-shaped, base expanded into a saccate, upper part with 2 short obtuse spurs, pink, inner layer slender prominent, wrapped in pistils and pistils, pink; stamens many, into 2 groups; style slender, stigma shield shaped, 2-lobed, ovary Room one. The capsule is slender and round, and the seed is small and has a corolla. The flowering period is from April to June.

It is cultivated in Northeast, northwest, North China and Yunnan.

[chemical constituents] the whole plant contains cryptopinine, protoopioid, sanguinarine, limonine, chelerythrine, chelerythrine, sinomenine, corydalis skrjabini and bovine carposine.

[nature and taste] records of Lingnan medicine collection: "the taste is pungent and the nature is warm. "

[functions and indications] 1. Wang Lianshi's book of collecting herbs: "it's intoxicating to use its root to pound juice and take it with wine, and it's also the holy medicine of golden sores. "

② Lingnan medicine collection record: "dispersing blood, eliminating sores and poisons, eliminating wind and harmonizing blood. "