Prunus persica. Amygdalus persica  桃 Táo  Peach   Family: Rosaceae      
桃 果 实 Táo guǒ shí   Peach fruit   
    FLAVOR: Sweet-sour
FUNCTIONS
1. Produce fluids.[1,3] Lubricate intestines.[1,3] Obstructive.[3]
2. Activate Blood, eliminate coagulations of Qi.[1] Promotes Blood circulation.[3]
INDICATIONS
1. Cough.[3] Excessive perspiration.[3]
2. Hernial pain.[3]
3. Weak Liver.[1]
CONTRAINDICATIONS: Excessive consumption could generate internal Heat. [1]
PREPARATIONS: Commonly eaten fruit. Dried peaches are prepared from unripe peaches being left in the sun.[3]

- Asthma and cough- Peel 3 fresh peaches and steam the peaches with 30 g rock sugar. Eat once a day.[3]
- Relieve hernial pain- Boil 30 g dried peaches and a mango in water. Eat twice a day.[3]
- Relieve seminal emissin, excessicve perspiration, and night sweat- Fry 30 g dried peaches until the surface is brown and yellowish. Add water immediately and then add 30 g red dates; boil for a few minutes. Eat at bedtime.[3]
- Treat hypertension- Eat 1 to 2 peaches each time, twice a day, or boil 30 g dried peaches inwater and drink like tea.[3]
桃 仁 Táo rén   Peach kernel     
Peach seeds can be brocken open to reveal the kernel, which are then left in the sun to dry. These are important and widely used in chinese herbal remedies.[3]
Nature- neutral  Affect on Blood- Regulate   FLAVOR: Bitter., sweet.  CHANNEL: Heart, Liver, Lung, Large Intestine   TOXICITY: Slightly toxic
FUNCTIONS
GROUP: Regulate Blood and removing Stasis
1. Remove Blood stasis.
2. Lubricate intestines.[1,2,3] Lubricates Large Intestine.[4]
3. Relieve cough and asthma.
4. Analgesic.[4] Antitoxic.[4]
INDICATIONS- Commonly used for clearing stasis.[4]
1. Ammenorrhea and dysmenorrhea due to Blood stasis:[1,2,4] Abdominal mass, Abdominal pain and swelling, irregular menses and flow, blood clots, scanty, dark color, tired. T- pale P choppy or deep and retarded. Recently, used for hysteromyoma = abnormal fibrous or tumour tissue in muscle of uterus.
2. Trauma,[1,2,4] acute or chronic- especially the injury of the chest, abdomen and spine. Swollen, painful injury.[4]
3. Constipation due to dry intestines.[1,2] Constipation after injury or sickness.[4] Appendicitis.[4] Acute appendicitis.
4. Cough and asthma.
5. Blood stasis and blood dryness with pruritic eruptions.
PATENT COMBINATIONS
NOTE: Recently, injections are used for cental retinitis, pigmentary degeneration of retina, postocular optic neuritis, optic atrophy.
PREPARATIONS: Peach kernel  3-9 g.[1,4] Decoction 6-12 g (crushed before decocting). The spermoderm should be retained for asthma.[2]

- Constipation- Crush 15 g peach kernels and boil with 30 g honey. Drink the mixture.[3]
- Relieve abdominal pain after childbirth and suppression of menstruation- Boil 15 g of peach kernels, fresh ginger, and red dates with 30 g rice wine and an adequate amount of water. Drink as tea in the morning and evening.[3]
References
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Research

Xing ren and Tao ren are restricted in Australia by TGA despite being used for thousands of years in Chinese herbs.
When are Fu Zi And Ma Huang going to become available in Austalia? Feb 22, 2013
Two of the herbs proposed by the former Chinese Medicine Registration Board of Victoria to be added to Schedule 1 of the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons (SUSMP) remain unavailable to registered Chinese herbal medicine practitioners with additional endorsement for prescribing these herbs individually.
The SUSMP, referred to as “The Poisons Standard”, has a Schedule 1 which is empty. Under the Victorian Poisons List (Schedules 2-9 are adopted automatically by reference from the national Standard for Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons), it is currently illegal for a Chinese herbal medicine practitioner or herbal dispenser to ‘obtain, possess, use, sell or supply’ certain Chinese herbs listed in the various schedules of the list. Similar restrictions apply in other states and territories.
The former Chinese Medicine Registration Board Victoria (ended on 30 June 2012) prepared a submission for the Victorian Minister for Health recommending the inclusion of Fu Zi and Ma Huang (as well as Ban Bian Lian) in Schedule 1 of the Victorian Poisons List so that Board-endorsed practitioners could safely dispense/prescribe for patients who would benefit from the use of these herbs based on their professional justification and an evidence-based approach. Until now, the herbs have failed to receive the Ministerial approval in Victoria which may have been a basis for other States to consider similar arrangements.
With national registration now commenced from July 2012, this is now a national issue and a new strategy is needed to achieve access to those herbs for Chinese herbal medicine practitioners in Australia. safflower.com.au

Amygdalin isolated from Semen Persicae (Tao Ren) extracts induces the expression of follistatin in HepG2 and C2C12 cell lines
Chuanbin Yang, Xuechen Li, and Jianhui Rongcorresponding author
Abstract
Background
The Chinese medicine formulation ISF-1 (also known as Bu-Yang-Huan-Wu-Tang) for post-stroke rehabilitation could increase the expression of growth-regulating protein follistatin by approximately 4-fold. This study aims to identify the active compounds of ISF-1 for the induction of follistatin expression.
Methods
Active compounds in ISF-1 responsible for induction of follistatin were identified by a bioactivity-guided fractionation procedure involving liquid-liquid extraction, HPLC separation and RT-PCR detection. The aqueous extracts of seven ISF-1 ingredients including Semen Persicae (Tao Ren) and the S. Persicae-derived fractions were assayed for the induction of follistatin mRNA expression in human hepatocarcinoma HepG2 cells by RT-PCR. The concentrations of isolated compounds were proportionally normalized to the reported IC50 concentration (5.8 mg/mL) of the formulation ISF-1 in HepG2. The active fractions were characterized by reverse-phase HPLC on a C18 column and identified by mass spectrometry.
Results
Three ingredients of ISF-1, namely S. Persicae (Tao Ren), Pheretima (Di Long), and Flos Carthami (Hong Hua), induced the expression of follistatin mRNA. Among these, the ingredient S. Persicae were the most active, and amygdalin from S. Persicae extract was identified as a novel follistatin inducer. Amygdalin stimulated the growth of skeletal muscle cell line C2C12 cells in a concentration-dependent manner.
Conclusions
Amygdalin isolated from S. Persicae extract in ISF-1 through a bioactivity-guided fractionation procedure induced the expression of follistatin in HepG2 and C2C12 cell lines.
Chin Med. 2014; 9: 23.
Published online 2014 Sep 16. doi: 10.1186/1749-8546-9-23
PMCID: PMC4167460 PMID: 25237385 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Antioxidant effect of aqueous extract of four plants with therapeutic potential on gynecological diseases; Semen persicae, Leonurus cardiaca, Hedyotis diffusa, and Curcuma zedoaria
Shaojian Ji, Amir Fattahi, Nathalie Raffel, Inge Hoffmann, Matthias W. Beckmann, Ralf DittrichEmail author and Michael Schrauder
Abstract
Background
Little information is available concerning antioxidant effects of plant teas (water boiled) which are used more commonly in traditional Chinese medicine than other extracts. Thus, we addressed this issue by evaluating the ability of teas from four different plants with therapeutic potential on gynecological diseases.
Methods
The aqueous extracts of Semen persicae, Leonurus cardiaca, Hedyotis diffusa, and Curcuma zedoaria rhizome were prepared and then their effects on copper-induced low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) oxidation were evaluated by spectrophotometric method. Density gradient ultracentrifugation method was recruited to isolate LDL-C from healthy individuals.
Results
Our results showed that adding 10, 20, and 30 µl S. persicae could increase the lag phase duration of LDL-C oxidation compared with control reaction 12, 21, and 33%, respectively. The most effective delay (87%) was observed when 30 µl H. diffusa was added to the reaction. In cases of L. cardiaca and C. zedoaria, we found no significant influence on the lag phase duration (p > 0.05). Moreover, our findings about starting point of the decomposition phase were almost in parallel with the lag phase results, as 30 µl of S. persicae or H. diffusa teas could significantly increase the initiation time of decomposition (p < 0.05).
Conclusions
In conclusion our results showed that both S. persicae and H. diffusa teas and not L. cardiaca and C. zedoaria could have medicinal therapeutic effects partly through direct oxidation prevention.
European Journal of Medical Research201722:50
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40001-017-0293-6© The Author(s) 2017
Received: 5 September 2017Accepted: 15 November 2017Published: 25 November 2017 eurjmedres.biomedcentral.com