Pharmaceutical name:

英文藥名：

Cortex Moutan Radicis

Biological name:

拉丁名：

Paeonia suffruticosa Andr.

Pron. in Japanese：

日語發音:

botanpi

Pron. in Korean:

韓語發音：

moktanpi

Pron. in Cantonese:

粵語發音：

Common Name:

英文名：

peony root

Distribution:

分布：

throughout China, especially  in Anhui, Henan, Sichuan, Hunan, Shaanxi, Shandong, Gansu, Guizhou

遍布於全國， 尤其在安徽，河南，四川，湖南，陕西，山東，甘肃，貴州。

Properties (characteristics)

性味：

acrid, bitter, mildly cool

辛，苦，略涼。

Channels (meridians) entered:

歸經：

heart, liver, kidney

心，肝，腎。

Actions & Indications:

主治：

clears heat and cools the blood, clears fire of yin deficiency, clear blood stasis and rid of clots, drain pus and reduces swelling due to blood stasis.

清熱，涼血。去陰虛之火，排膿，消血瘀之腫。

Medical Function:

藥理：

• 1. effect on circulation

• 2. anti micro organism

• 3. anti inflammatory,  and effect on immune system

• 4. effect on CNS

• 5. effect on secretion of water and sodium when dosage is increased. Low dosage does not have effect on secretion of potassium. At highest dosage secretion of potassium is  decreased.

1. 對血液循環作用

2. 抗微生物作用

3. 抗炎，免疫作用

4. 對中區腦神經作用

5. 劑量增加時有排鈉與排水作用。低劑量對排鉀無作用。高劑量對排鉀作用降低。

Chemical ingredients:

化學成分：

paeonol, paeonoside, paeonolide, apiopaeonoside

paeoniflorin, ozypaeoniflorin, benzoylpaeoniflorin, benzoyl-oxypaeoniflorin

gallic aid, 1,23,4,6-pentagalloylglucose

Dosage:

6 to 12 g

6～12克。

Samples of formulae:

Modern Application:

現代應用：

1. purpura due to low platelet count

2. infectious diarrhea

3. hypertension

4. allergenic rhinitis

5. cholinergic hives （hives appear in response to a rise in body temperature from exercise, overheating, or stress）.

血小板低下所引起之紫斑

感染性之腹瀉

血壓高

鼻敏感

膽鹼功能性風疹 （體溫升高時，如運動，過熱，神經壓力所引起的）。

Cautions:

禁忌：

not to use in cold disorder, pregnancy, excessive menstruation, bleeding, yinxu (yin deficient) with night sweat.

Not compatible with tu si zi , bei mu, da huang, and da suan

有下列情形忌用：寒證，月經過多，出血，  陰虛盜汗。

反菟絲子，貝母，大黃  ，大 蒜。