Chi Shao - Red Paeoniae Trichocarpae【Net Wt: 45g(1.8g x 25 Sachets)】

NPN 80080846

【Macroscopic Features】
Cylindrical, slightly curved, 5~40cm long, 0.5~3cm diameter. Externally brown, rough, with longitudinal grooves and wrinkles, and with rootlet scars and horizontal raised lenticels, some skin easily falls off. Hard and brittle texture, easily broken; fractured surface is pink-white or pink-red. Cortex is narrow, xylem has radial striations; some with cracks. faintly aromatic odor, slightly bitter sour and astringent taste.

【Properties】Bitter; slightly cold.

【Channels (meridians) entered】Liver.

【Functions】
Clears heat, cools the blood, disperses stasis, relieves pain. Unprocessed Chi shao is advanced on clearing heat and cooling the blood. Apply to body heat and bleeding due to warm-heat disease of heat into blood, red eye and swelling with pain, swollen carbuncles and sore toxin.