一、芍药分赤白说 芍药分为赤白,当始于魏晋以后,六朝之时。陶弘景《本草经集注》曰:“今出白山、蒋山、茅山最多,白而长尺许,余处亦有而多赤,赤者小利。”《重修政和经史证类备用本草》引别本注云:“此有两种,赤者利小便、下气。白者止痛散血。”唐·日华子云:“赤色者多补气,白者治血。”宋·马志《蜀本草》曰:“此有赤白两种,其花亦有赤白二色”。宋·苏颂《本草图经》曰:“芍药有二种,一者金芍药,二者木芍药,救病用金芍药,色白多脂肉,木芍药色紫瘦多脉。”宋·王衮《博济方》云:“治五淋赤芍药一两”、《广利方》云:“治金疮血不止、痛、白芍药一两。”宋·初虞世《初虞世方》云:“治咯血衄血白芍药一两。”《本草纲目》列入草部芳草部类,李时珍 First, the drug is divided into red and white, said the drug is divided into red and white, when it began after the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Six Dynasties. Tao Hongjing’s “Ben Cao Jing Ji Zhu” said: “Today Baishan, Jiangshan, Maoshan up, white and long-footed Xu, there are many red and red, red and small profit.” “Restoration of the government and the history of evidence class alternate Materia Medica” cited Do not pay attention to the cloud: “There are two kinds, the red ones are urinating and defecating. The white ones have pain and bleeding.” Tang Rihua Ziyun: “The red ones have more qi and the white ones cure blood.” Song Ma Zhi “Sakamoto Materia Medica” said: “There are two kinds of red and white, and the flowers are also red and white.” Su Song Su Song, “The sketch by the” said: “There are two kinds of peony medicine, one gold wolfberry medicine, the two wood peony medicine, gold peony medicine to save the disease, color white fat meat, hibiscus medicinal purple and thin pulse.” Song king衮 衮 “Bo Ji Fang” cloud: “to cure five dripping red peony medicine one or two”, “Guangli Fang” cloud: “Gold cure sore blood, pain, white peony medicine one or two.” Song early quake, “the beginning of the world” cloud: “Cure for sputum, blood stasis, and blood stasis, one or two drugs.” “Compendium of Materia Medica” included in the grass and grass department, Li Shizhen