Mu dan pi – cortex moutan

Mu dan pi
[Medicinal use] This product is the root bark of the Ranunculaceae plant peony.
[Nature and flavor and meridians] Pungent, bitter, slightly cold. Enters the heart, liver, and kidney meridians.
[Effects] Clears heat and cools blood, promotes blood circulation and disperses blood stasis.
[Clinical application] 1. Used for febrile diseases, heat entering the blood, high fever, red tongue, body rashes, blood heat, vomiting blood, epistaxis, hematuria, and fever due to yin deficiency.
Mu dan pi clears the real heat of the blood, and can also treat fever due to yin deficiency. To clear the real heat of the blood, it is often used with fresh Rehmannia glutinosa, red peony root, etc.; to treat virtual heat, it is often used with Radix Rehmanniae, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, Artemisia annua, and Carapace of Beast; to treat blood heat, it is often used with fresh Imperatae cylindricae, Platycladus orientalis, Gardenia jasminoides, etc.
2. Used for amenorrhea, injuries from falls, sores, carbuncles, swellings, and intestinal carbuncle.
Amenorrhea and injury are all accompanied by blood stasis. Pain often occurs due to blood stasis in the collaterals. Cortex Moutan can promote blood circulation and dissipate blood stasis, so that blood stasis can be dissipated and blood and qi can flow smoothly, and pain can be relieved. It is often used together with Angelica sinensis, Red Peony Root, Peach Kernel, and Safflower.
3. This product is also a commonly used medicine for sores, carbuncles, swellings, and intestinal carbuncles. For the treatment of sores and carbuncles, it can be used in combination with heat-clearing and detoxifying drugs such as honeysuckle, forsythia, and ground clove; for intestinal carbuncles that have not yet formed pus, it can be used together with rhubarb, sodium sulfate, peach kernel, and wax gourd seeds; for those who have formed pus, it can be used in combination with red vine, forsythia, and patrinia.
[Prescription name] Powder Cortex Moutan, Cortex Moutan (raw, used to clear real heat, purge virtual fire, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis), stir-fried Cortex Moutan, Cortex Moutan charcoal (fried until black, used to cool blood and stop bleeding)
[General dosage and usage] One to three coins, decocted.
【Comments】Peony root is good at clearing blood and activating blood circulation, so it has the effect of cooling blood and dispersing blood stasis, making blood flow smoothly without stasis, and clearing blood heat without rash. Therefore, it is an important medicine for symptoms such as intense blood heat, liver and kidney fire, and blood stasis.
This product can be used with fresh raw earth to clear heat and cool blood; with large raw earth, it can nourish the kidney and purge fire; with gardenia, it can clear the liver and purge heat; with red peony root and peach kernel, it can activate blood circulation and dissipate blood stasis; with Platycladus orientalis and fresh Imperata root, it can cool blood and stop bleeding.
【Example of prescription】Peony powder “Zhengzhi Zhunsheng”: Peony root, peony root, angelica, safflower, dry lacquer, Sappan wood, myrrh, Curcuma, Ghost arrow feather, Corydalis, Lindera strychnifolia, Tangerine peel, Licorice, Cinnamon twig. Treats deficiency and retention of sperm, hot flashes and fatigue, and afternoon fever.
Mudanpi Powder “Zhengzhi Zhunsheng”: Cortex Moutan, Red Peony Root, Radix Rehmanniae, Angelica Sinensis, Peach Kernel, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Frankincense, Myrrh, Drynariae, Dipsacus. Treats injuries caused by falls and pain caused by blood stasis.
Where is the main medicinal part of Mu dan pi?
Medicinal part of Mu dan pi:
Mu dan pi is the dried root bark of Paeonia sufruticosa Andr., a plant of the Ranunculaceae family. Dig up the roots in autumn, remove the fine roots and mud, peel off the root bark, and dry it in the sun; or scrape off the rough bark, remove the wood core, and dry it in the sun. The former is commonly known as “Lian Danpi” and the latter is commonly known as “Gua Danpi”.
Characteristics of the medicinal parts of Mu dan pi:
The Mu dan pi is cylindrical or semi-cylindrical, with longitudinal cracks, slightly curled or opened inward, 5~20cm long, 0.5~1.2cm in diameter, and 0.1~0.4cm thick.
The outer surface is gray-brown or yellow-brown, with many horizontal lenticel-like protrusions and fine root marks, and the cork peel is pink; the inner surface is light gray-yellow or light brown with obvious fine longitudinal lines, and shiny crystals are common. It is hard and brittle, easy to break, with a relatively flat cross section, light pink, and powdery.
It has a fragrant smell and tastes slightly bitter and astringent. There are scraping marks on the outer surface of the scraped Mu dan pi, and the outer surface is reddish brown or light gray-yellow, and sometimes gray-brown spots of residual outer skin can be seen.
How are Mu dan pi recorded in ancient books? “Ben Jing”: “It cures cold and heat, stroke, convulsions, convulsions, epilepsy, evil spirits, removes hard blood stasis in the stomach and intestines, calms the five internal organs, and treats carbuncle. “Yuhuazi Materia Medica”: “It removes evil spirits, brightens the complexion, clears the blood vessels, discharges pus, regulates menstruation, eliminates blood stasis, strengthens tendons and bones, removes rheumatism, and treats all cold and hot blood and qi after abortion.
“Zhenzhu Nang”: “It cures blood stasis in the stomach and intestines, epistaxis, hematemesis, and bone steaming without sweat.
“Compendium of Materia Medica”: “It harmonizes blood, produces blood, and cools blood. It cures fire hidden in the blood and eliminates irritability and heat.
Effects and Functions
Mu dan pi has the effects of clearing heat and cooling blood, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.
What are the main effects and clinical applications of Mu dan pi?
Mu dan pi is used for heat entering the blood, warm toxic spots, vomiting blood, night heat and morning coolness, no sweat and bone steaming, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, pain from falls and injuries, carbuncle and sore.
Warm toxic spots, blood heat bleeding
Treats heat entering the blood of warm and hot diseases, purple and black spots, body heat and red tongue, etc., often used with buffalo horn, rehmannia, red peony root, etc. Treats vomiting blood and epistaxis due to blood heat, often used with cirsium, cirsium, and cypress leaves. Blood stasis syndrome
Treats blood stasis amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, can be used with peach kernel, chuanxiong, cinnamon twig, etc.
Treats pain from falls, can be used with blood clotting, angelica, safflower, etc. .
Treats sores, carbuncle and swelling pain caused by heat toxicity, often used with honeysuckle, dandelion, etc.
Treats abdominal pain caused by intestinal carbuncle, often used with rhubarb, mirabilite, peach kernel, etc.
Deficiency-heat syndrome
For patients with late stage of febrile disease, evil hidden in the yin, night heat and morning coolness, and no sweat after fever subsides, it is often used together with Artemisia annua, turtle shell, and raw Rehmannia root. .
For patients with yin deficiency fever, bone steaming and hot flashes, it is often used together with Anemarrhena asphodeloides, Phellodendron chinense, and Rehmannia root.
What other effects does Mu dan pi have?
The commonly used medicinal diet recipes of Mu dan pi are as follows:
Hematuria
. Mu dan pi 30g, 2 turtles (weighing about 500g).
·After processing the turtle, put it in a casserole with Mu dan pi, add appropriate amount of water, boil over medium heat, add 2 spoons of rice wine and half a spoon of salt, simmer over low heat for 2~3 hours, until the turtle meat is soft and the turtle shell is easy to fall off, eat the turtle meat and drink the soup, 1 small bowl each time, twice a day.
Night heat and morning coolness, no sweat and bone steaming
·Artemisia annua 6g, turtle shell 15g, fine Rehmannia root 12g, Anemarrhena asphodeloides 6g, Mu dan pi 9g.
·Simmer for 2-3 hours on low heat until the turtle shell is soft and tender, eat the turtle meat and drink the soup, 1 small bowl each time, 2 times a day.
Note: The use of Chinese herbal medicines must be based on syndrome differentiation and treatment, and should be used under the guidance of professional Chinese medicine practitioners. Do not use them at will, and do not listen to Chinese medicine prescriptions and advertisements at will.
What are the compound preparations containing Mu dan pi?
Shihuisan
Cools blood and stops bleeding. Mainly used for upper bleeding syndrome caused by blood heat. Vomiting blood, vomiting blood, coughing up blood, epistaxis, etc., the blood is bright red, the onset is sudden and violent, the tongue is red and the pulse is rapid.
Dahuang Mudan Tang
Clears heat and breaks up knots, disperses knots and reduces swelling. Mainly used for the initial stage of intestinal carbuncle, damp-heat stasis syndrome. Symptoms include swelling in the right lower abdomen, pain that refuses to be pressed, pain like stranguria when pressed, fever from time to time when urinating, spontaneous sweating and aversion to cold, or right foot flexion without extension, yellow and greasy tongue coating, slippery and rapid pulse.
Qinghao Biejia Tang
Nourishes yin and clears heat. Indications: late stage of febrile disease, evil hidden in the yin. Night heat and morning cool, fever subsides without sweat, red tongue, thin pulse.
Guizhi Fuling Wan
Activates blood circulation, removes blood stasis, eliminates symptoms. Used for women with lumps, blood stasis and amenorrhea, abdominal pain during menstruation, and postpartum lochia.
Liuwei Dihuang Wan
Nourishes yin and kidney. Used for kidney yin deficiency, dizziness, tinnitus, soreness of waist and knees, bone steaming and hot flashes, sweating and spermatorrhea, and elimination.
Guishao Dihuang Wan
Nourishes liver and kidney, replenishes yin and blood, and clears deficiency heat. Used for liver and kidney deficiency, yin deficiency and blood deficiency, dizziness, tinnitus and dry throat, afternoon hot flashes, waist and leg thinness and pain, heel pain.
Zhibai Dihuang Wan
Nourishes yin and reduces fire. Used for yin deficiency and fire excess, hot flashes and night sweats, dry mouth and pain, tinnitus and spermatorrhea, and short and red urine.
Jiawei Xiaoyao Wan
Soothes the liver and clears heat, but strengthens the spleen and nourishes blood. Used for liver depression and blood deficiency, liver and spleen disharmony, flank pain, dizziness, fatigue and loss of appetite, irregular menstruation, navel and abdominal pain
Shuangdan oral liquid
Activates blood circulation and removes blood stasis, dredges meridians and relieves pain. Used for chest pain caused by blood stasis and obstruction, with symptoms of chest tightness and heartache.
Danxi granules
Nourishes yin and calms the liver, extinguishes wind and dredges meridians, clears heat and relieves restlessness. Used for blood stasis and obstruction of meridians and kidney deficiency during the recovery period of stroke, with symptoms of hemiplegia, crooked mouth and tongue, stiff tongue and speechlessness, numbness on one side of the body, dizziness, soreness of waist and knees, and patients with the above symptoms during the recovery period of cerebral infarction.
Modern research progress on Mu dan pi
This product has multiple pharmacological effects such as antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, anti-tumor, and liver protection.
Usage method
Mu dan pi has the effects of clearing heat and cooling blood, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Generally, Mu dan pi slices are used for internal use. Please follow the doctor’s instructions for specific medication.
How to use Mu dan pi correctly?
When Mu dan pi is decoctioned and taken orally, the usual dosage is 6~129.
Mu dan pi can be processed by different methods to produce Chinese medicinal materials such as Mu dan pi and peony bark charcoal. It is suitable to be used raw to clear heat and cool blood, to be used for blood circulation and dispelling, and to be used for charcoal to stop bleeding. Different processing methods have different effects, but the medication method is the same. Please follow the doctor’s advice for specific medication.
Mu dan pi is generally used in decoctions, decoctions are taken, and it can also be made into powder or pills for consumption. However, the use of Chinese medicinal materials must be differentiated and treated, and should be used under the guidance of professional Chinese medicine practitioners. It should not be used at will, and it is even more forbidden to listen to Chinese medicine prescriptions and advertisements at will.
How to process Mu dan pi?
Mu dan pi
Take the original medicinal material, remove impurities and residual wood core, wash it with water, moisten it thoroughly, slice it, and dry it.
Mu dan pi charcoal
Take clean Mu dan pi slices, stir-fry over medium heat until the surface is dark brown, and when the inside is brown, spray a little water to extinguish sparks, take it out, spread it out in time, and cool it thoroughly.
Which drugs should be used with cortex moutan at the same time?
The combined use of Chinese medicine and Chinese and Western medicine requires syndrome differentiation and treatment, clinical individualized treatment. If you are using other drugs, please consult a doctor before taking the medicine, and inform the doctor of all your diagnosed diseases and treatment plans you are receiving
Οδηγίες χρήσης
Peony bark clears and disperses, so it is not suitable for people with blood deficiency and cold, pregnant women and menorrhagia.
What are the precautions when using cortex moutan?
·This product has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood. It is not suitable for people with blood deficiency and cold, and menorrhagia. Pregnant women should use it with caution.
·This product has a fragrant smell and tastes slightly bitter and astringent. It is better to have thick skin, white powder, sufficient powder and strong aroma.
·During the medication, you should pay attention to avoid eating cold and raw food, spicy and greasy food, and avoid smoking and drinking.
·Children: Children should take medicine under the guidance of doctors and adult supervision.
·Please keep the medicinal materials properly and do not give them to others.
·Avoid using copper or iron utensils to decoct medicine.
How to identify and use cortex moutan?
Peony bark is bitter, pungent and slightly cold in nature. It enters the heart, liver and kidney meridians. It has the effects of clearing heat and cooling blood, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Different processing methods have different effects.
Peony bark raw products are good at clearing heat and cooling blood, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. They are used for plague spots or rashes, fever due to yin deficiency, no sweat bone steaming, intestinal carbuncle, carbuncle swelling and sore, liver fire headache, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, and falls and injuries. Such as Qinghao Biejia Decoction for treating yin deficiency fever.
Peony bark charcoal has weaker effects of clearing heat and cooling blood, and has the effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It is often used for blood heat bleeding. Such as Shihuisan for treating vomiting blood and blood.