Chi Shao  "Red Peony"

Herbs that move the blood 

 

 

Channels: LIV, SP

Properties: Sour, Bitter, Slightly Cold

Common: Red Peony Root

Latin: Radix Rubrus Paeoniae Lactiflorae

Actions:

  • Clears heat and cools the blood: for heat in the blood level causing fever, red-purple tongue, skin blotches, and bleeding. Also treats gynecological disorders from hot blood (dysmenorrhea or menorrhagia).
  • Invigorates blood, removes stagnation and swelling: for amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, acute inflammations, abdominal pain and masses. Also used for swelling and stagnation from internal or external injury, rashes, and abscess.
  • Clears liver fire: when ascending liver fire affects the eyes, causing redness and swelling.

Contraindications:

  • Contraindicated in patients with blood deficiency, and for amenorrhea from cold from deficiency.

Dosage:

  • 4.5-9g. Part used = root.