Mu dan pi - Tree Peony Root - bark【Net Wt: 100g】

NPN 80096475

【Macroscopic Features】
Tube-shaped or partially tube-shaped, with a longitudinally cut open fissure, slightly curled inward or opened, 5~20cm long, 0.5~1.2cm diameter, 0.1~0.4cm thick. Yuan dan pi is externally grayish-brown or yellowish-brown, with numerous horizontal lenticels and thin root scars; pink where the cork has fallen off; gua dan pi (fen dan pi) is pink-red or pale red. Inner surface is pale grayish-yellow or pale brown, with obvious thin longitudinal lines, often with shiny crystals (needle-like or column-like crystals of paeonol). Hard and brittle texture, easily broken. Fractured surface is relatively flat, pale pink-red, powdery, indistinct pattern. Aromatic odor, slightly bitter and astringent taste, numbing to the tongue.

【Properties】Bitter, acrid, slightly cold.

【Channels (meridians) entered】heart, liver, kidney.

【Functions】
Clears heat, cools blood, invigorates blood, disperses stasis. Apply to Heat entering into blood circulation, eruptions, non-traumatic hemorrhage and hemafecia, fever due to heat hidden in yin of later stage of febrile diseases, yin deficiency and bone steaming and hot flash, blood stagnation and abdominal mass, dysmenorrheal, abscess and sore swelling pain, injuries due to falls and toil, wind-damp heat impediment.