What is Paeonia lactiflora used for as an herbal medicine

As a traditional Chinese medicine, Paeonia lactiflora can be divided into white peony and red peony. White peony has the effects of nourishing blood and astringing yin (nourishing the blood and astringing yin), softening the liver and relieving pain (treating pains caused by liver-yin deficiency and liver-blood insufficiency), and calming liver-yang (suppressing upwardly reversed liver-yang); red peony has the effects of clearing heat and cooling the blood (alleviating blood-heat by clearing heat), and invigorating the blood and removing blood stasis (activating the blood and eliminating blood stagnation). 1. White peony is bitter, sour and slightly cold in nature, and enters the liver and spleen meridians. It can be used clinically for the treatment of conditions such as deficiency of liver and blood, irregular menstruation, disharmony between the liver and spleen (the liver and spleen failing to work in harmony), contractural pain in the limbs, hyperactivity of liver yang (the liver yang is over-exuberant, causing symptoms such as dizziness, dizziness, and headache), and headache and vertigo. This product occasionally has allergic reactions, epigastric discomfort, abdominal pain, etc. It should not be used with quinoa. 2. Radix Paeoniae Alba is bitter and slightly cold in nature, and can be used in the treatment of warm toxin spotting (warm and hot toxin invading the body resulting in skin spots and plaques), heat entering the camp blood (the degree of invasion of heat into the body is deep and the symptoms are more serious), vomiting hematemesis and epistaxis, obstruction in the abdomen, menstrual cramps and dysmenorrhea, bruises, etc. It should not be used with Veratrum. This product should not be used in conjunction with Veratrum, and should be taken with caution in cases of blood deficiency. The above medicines should be taken under the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, and should not be taken blindly on one’s own to avoid injury.