- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Ranunculaceae
- English Names
- Natural Habitat
- Europe
- India (temperate Himalayas)
- China
- Part(s) Used
- Radix Paeoniae
- Semen Paeoniae
- Flores Paeoniae rubrae
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- Constituent(s)
- root: peregrenin (paeonol and glucose)
- glutamin
- malates
- phosphates
- oxalates
- sugar
- starch
- volatile oil
- tannin; flower: paeonin
- tannin; seed: fatty oil
- sugar
- resin
- tannin
- albumen
- colouring matter
- Action
- flower: intoxicant
- antispasmodic
- anti-epileptic; seed: emetic
- emmenagogue
- anti-epileptic; root: antispasmodic
- tonic
- alterative
- depurative
- anti-epileptic
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