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Tree Peony Bark
Tree Peony Bark. Class: Heat Clearing Blood Cooling Drugs. Properties: Bitter; Pungent; Slightly Cold. Meridians: Heart; Liver; Kidney
🌿 Names
Pinyin Name
Mu Dan Pi
中文名 (Chinese)
牡丹皮
Latin Name
Moutan Cortex; Cortex Moutan
English Name
Tree Peony Bark
Alias Names
牡丹根皮丹皮丹根
☯ TCM Properties
Properties (性味)
Bitter; Pungent; Slightly Cold
Meridians (归经)
Heart; Liver; Kidney
Part Used
Root cortex
Therapeutic Class (EN)
Heat Clearing Blood Cooling Drugs
功效分类 (CN)
清热凉血药
🩺 Clinical Profile
Function (功能)
To remove heat from blood, to activate blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis.
Indication (主治)
Appendicitis, dysentery, hypertension, allergic rhinitis, warm heat disease with fever, macular eruption, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, steaming bone tidal fever due to yin vacuity, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, dysmenorrhea, concretion and conglomeration, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, painful wound from knocks and falls, wind-damp-heat impediment.
Clinical Manifestations
1. antibacterial and anti-inflammatory.2.sedative. in moused 125mg/kg intraperitoneally3. analgesic. in mouse 1.0g/kg for gastric infusion.4. anticonvulsive. relieving the convulsive seizures in experimental animals induced by electric stimulation or inje
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