Peony is a plant. The root and, less commonly, the flower and seed are used to make medicine. Peony is sometimes called red peony and white peony. This does not refer to the color of the flowers, which are pink, red, purple, or white, but to the color of the processed root.

Peony is used for gout, osteoarthritis, fever, respiratory tract illnesses, and cough. Women use peony for menstrual cramps, polycystic ovary syndrome, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), and for starting menstruation or causing an abortion. It is also used for viral hepatitis, livercirrhosis, upset stomach, muscle cramps, “hardening of the arteries” (atherosclerosis), and to cause vomiting. Peony is also used for spasms, whooping cough (pertussis), epilepsy, nerve pain (neuralgia), migraineheadache, and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).

People apply peony to the skin for healing cracked skin, especially cracks around the anus (anal fissures) that sometimes occur with hemorrhoids.

How does it work?
Peony might block chemicals produced by the body that can cause muscle cramps. It may also prevent blood clotting and act as an antioxidant.

Radix Paeoniae Alba 白芍 (Bai Shao) is also known by the common names White Peony Root and Peony. The herb is the root of the perennial herbaceous plants Paeonia lactiflora Pall. of family Buttercup. It is collected in summer and autumn, washed clean, peeled, boiled, and dried in the sun. Before use, they are soaked in water, cut into slices, and dried in the sun. The roots can also be processed. In TCM, the herb is bitter, sour in flavor and mildly cold in medicinal properties; it belongs to the category of herbs that Tonify the Blood.

Radix Paeoniae Alba nourishes Blood, regulate menstruation and preserve the Yin, nourish the Liver to calm Liver Yang and Liver Wind, softens the Liver, relieves pain, and eliminates blood stasis.

Effects: It is used as an analgesic, anti-inflammatory and antispasmodic drug in the treatment of amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, muscle spasm of neck, shoulder, face, abdomen, limbs and back, jerky legs, and pain in the chest and abdomen. It is also to treat dementia, headache, vertigo, liver disease, anemia, fever, diarrhea, borborygmus, dysenteric disorders with tenesmus, menstrual dysfunction, uterine bleeding, vaginal discharge, allergies, spontaneous perspiration, night sweat, and as an anticoagulant. It is also used in the treatment of atopic eczema, boils, and sores.

Health Benefits: Lowers blood pressure, dilates peripheral blood vessels, lower resistant, Dilates coronary arteries, Neutralizes the carcinogenic effect of aflatoxins. It has anti-spastic, anticonvulsant, analgesic, sedative and cardiovascular effects; and Antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, antibiotic and antiplatelet properties.

Radix Paeoniae Alba is one of the ingredients used in Neck and & Shoulder Active Care and Tension Relief Formula.

In Eastern Han Dynasty (about 1,800 years ago), the renowned Chinese physician Hua Tuo discovered the medicinal use of white peony root. The following is a story of his discovery of this herb.

Hua Tuo built a pond and planted a variety of medicinal plants in his backyard, transformed into an herb garden. Furthermore, he taught people cultivating and processing techniques of medicinal hers. He always used and tasted every herb in advance until thoroughly comprehended the medicinal properties of the herbs before using the herbs to treat his patients.

One day, a visitor came and gave him a white peony plant as a gift, so Hua Tuo planted it in his herb garden. A usual, he tasted the leaf, stem, and flower, and felt the plant was just ordinary without any medicinal properties, so he did not use the peony as a medicinal herb.

One night, Hua Tuo was reading under a lamp, he heard a woman weeping. He raised his head and looked out of the winder. He saw a beautiful woman standing under the moonlight and weeping sadly. Hua Tuo went out to the garden to check, but there is nobody there. On the spot where the woman was standing is the white peony. He was surprised and thought: “Maybe the woman was the peony?” He looked at the peony, shook his head, and talked to himself: “There is no special properties in you at all, I can't use any part of you as medicine.” He returned to his study and continued to read.

The moment he sat down, he heard the weeping again, so he went out to check and it was only the peony there, so he woke up his wife and described what happened to her. His wife looked at the white peony outside, and said: “Every single plant in the garden was turned into good medicinal plant by you. You have used them to cure and save countless lives. However, you ignored this peony, I think you probably haven't figured out its medicinal properties, and naturally it felt sad.

Rinse the herbs with cold running water; then soak it for 30min. Water : Herbs (3L : 100g)
Bring to a boil, lower the hear and simmer for a further 2hours.
Keep refridgerated and take 1cup 3times daily.(hot or cold)

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