Top Quality Moutan Cortex

Moutan Cortex is a deciduous SHRUB, 1 ~ 2 meters high. Roots Terete, Rind Grayish Brown or purplish Brown, aromatic. Leaves alternate, leaflets ovate, terminal leaflets often 3-lobed, lateral leaflets unequal 2-lobed to 3-lobed or unlobed, beneath flour white. Flowers Solitary; stem apex, 15-20 cm in Diam. ; Sepals 5, Persistent; Petals 5, or double, White, reddish purple or yellow; stamens numerous; carpels 5, densely hairy; disk completely enveloped. Fruit ovoid, densely brown pubescent. Flowering may-july, fruiting july-august. Distribution of origin cultivation throughout the country. Distribution in Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Gansu and other places. After 3 ~ 5 years of cultivation, the roots are dug, washed, the fibrous roots are removed, the bark is cut with a knife, the wood is removed, and the root bark is dried in the sun. The medicinal materials are tubular or semi-simple, with longitudinal cracks, slightly curled or open, 5 ~ 20 cm long, 0.5 ~ 1.2 cm in diameter, 0.1 ~ 0.4 cm thick skin. Outer Surface gray-brown or yellow-brown, most of the long horizontal lenticels and fine root scars, cork off the pink. The inner surface is light grayish yellow or light brown, with obvious fine longitudinal lines. Hard and brittle, easy to break, cross-section more flat, Light Pink, pink. The Aroma is slightly bitter and astringent.

Sexual Taste Channel: sexual slight cold, taste bitter, acrid. Meridians of the heart, liver and kidney. Efficacy and function: clearing heat and cooling blood, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Belongs to the heat-clearing medicine subordinate classification heat-clearing and blood-cooling medicine. Pharmacological Research: It has central inhibitory effect; improves the function of cardiovascular system; has significant anticoagulant effect; anti-inflammation, anti-bacteria; can enhance the body's immune function; has significant inhibitory effect on stress gastric ulcer and gastric juice secretion in rats, it can also inhibit the contraction of Ileum and uterus, and has diuretic effect, and has obvious inhibition on Calcium channel blocker receptor in vitro. Chemical composition: mainly contains new PAEONOL glycoside, Benzoylpaeoniflorin, Benzoyloxypaeoniflorin, oxypaeoniflorin, Paeoniflorin, Paeoniflorin, gallic acid, etc.