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Chi Shao (Red Peony Root)

Herbs that Cool the Blood
Chi Shao 赤芍

Radix Rubrus Paeoniae Lactiflorae Red Peony Root

Channels LIVSP
Nature Slightly Cold SourBitter
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Chi Shao (Radix Rubrus Paeoniae Lactiflorae)
Specimen Radix Rubrus Paeoniae Lactiflorae

Materia Medica Data

Category
Herbs that Cool the Blood
Temperature
Slightly Cold
Nature & Flavour
Sour, Bitter, Slightly Cold
Channels Entered
LIV, SP
Latin (pharmaceutical)
Radix Rubrus Paeoniae Lactiflorae
Chinese
赤芍
Tone Marks
chì sháo
Translation
Red Peony

Relationships

Appears in Formulas 7

Clear Heat (3)

Qing Wen Bai Du Yin6-12gXi Jiao Di Huang Tang9-12gXian Fang Huo Ming Yin3g

Invigorate the Blood (2)

Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang6gBu Yang Huan Wu Tang4.5g

Release the Exterior (2)

Sheng Ma Ge Gen Tang6-9gZai Zao San3g

Cautionary Pairings1

Li Lu
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Chinese Herb 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 For ascending Liver Fire affecting the eyes, causing redness and swelling.

Chinese Herb Dosage

  • 4.5-9 grams.
  • Part used: root.

Chinese Herb Combinations:

  1. Bai Shao (Radix Albus Paeoniae Lactiflorae)
  2. Chi Shao (Radix Rubrus Paeoniae Lactiflorae)

Chinese Herb Contraindications & Cautions

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

This herb is incompatible with:

Sources & References

Compiled and edited by Thomas Dehli, Founder & Editor, Sacred Lotus

The information here is referenced from numerous sources — teachers, practitioners, class notes from Five Branches University, the books below, and the published research literature, with citations given as resolvable PubMed identifiers. Where sources disagree, I have flagged the discrepancies directly. If facts couldn't be verified, I have left them out. How we source our content.

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Chinese Herbs Books & References

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    John K. Chen, Tina T. Chen

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    Max Wichtl

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    Him Che. Yeung

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