White peony root is often used to treat sallow complexion, irregular menses, menstrual pain, excessive menses, sweating problems, pain in the chest, stomach, abdomen, and limbs, and headache and dizziness. ^[3],[4],[6]

• White peony root is commonly used for enriching blood and regulating menses
  Blood deficiency that leads to a sallow complexion, dizziness, and ear ringing can be treated by white peony root along with rehmannia root, angelica root and Sichuan lovage rhizome. The blood tonic effect can be stronger, if processed fleeceflower root and donkey-hide gelatin are added in the remedy. White peony root is often used to regulate menses. For example, when the root works with rehmannia root, angelica root, baical skullcap root and donkey-hide gelatin, early periods or excess menses that caused by virtual heat can be relieved. When it works with processed rehmannia root, angelica root, Sichuan lovage rhizome, Chinese safflower and peach kernel, late periods or scanty menses that caused by blood deficiency can be relieved. The root is an ingredient of the well-known formula Four-substance Decoction, which can be used to relieve menstrual pain if in combination with processed nutgrass flatsedge rhizome and corydalis rhizome. For dysfunctional uterine bleeding (DUB), white peony root may be selected along with rehmannia root, angelica root, yerbadetajo herb and donkey-hide gelatin.


• White peony root arrests sweating
  The root works with cassia twig, fresh ginger and Chinese dates to treat excess sweating that due to cold and wind weakened the superficial portion of the body; in case if the symptom is serious, aconite root should be added in the remedy too. For different sweating problems, the root can work with herbs like astragalus root, pseudostellaria root, black soybean coat, oyster shell, and blighted wheat.


• White peony root soothes liver, moderates acute reactions, and relieves pain, which become an important ingredient for painful spasms
  White peony root will be the first choice, and is usually paired with liquorice root to relieve various muscular spasms, such as in the stomach, intestines, lower legs, face, diaphragm and internal organs. For example, rib side pain can select white peony root along with bupleurum root, bitter orange and liquorice root to soothe liver, relieve qi stagnation and arrest the pain; cold pain in the abdomen can select the root along with cassia twig, angelica root, liquorice root and maltose to warm meridians, activate blood and arrest the pain. For other painful spasms that are associated with excess cold, cassia bark can be selected to work with the above paired herbs, and if it is associated with excess heat, baical skullcap root can be selected to work with. For disharmony between the spleen and liver, white peony root can work with ledebouriella root, largehead atractylodes rhizome and dried tangerine peel to relieve the abdominal pain and diarrhea. Dysentery is often regarded as damp-heat accumulated in the lower burner, white peony root can work with baical skullcap root, golden thread rhizome, costus root and betel nut to relieve the diarrhea, abdominal pain and tenesmus.


• White peony root enriches yin and pacifies liver
  Hyperactive liver yang leads to headache and dizziness, white peony root can work with rehmannia root, achyranthes root, ochre minerals and oyster shell to enrich blood and pacify liver. Excessive heat in the liver meridian that generates internal wind may lead to high fever, delirium and convulsions, white peony root can work with antelope horn, gambir vine stem and fresh rehmannia root for relief. White peony root is also a common herb for yin deficiency and yang hyperactive type of hypertension.