What are the effects and functions of the wolfsbane?

The herb can be used to treat rheumatic paralysis, and it is also very effective in treating rheumatic arthritis, pain caused by phlegm, or left paralysis and right paralysis. However, if you want to exert its efficacy, you must pay attention to matching the correct medicinal materials and do not use it blindly.

① Treat rheumatism, inability to control the hands and feet, pain in the limbs, and slurred speech: Take any amount of Azalea flowers, mix with wine and steam for a long time, take out, dry them, and grind them into powder. Use one cup of milk, warm it until hot, and add one qian of it. (Sheng Hui Fang)

② Treat pain caused by wind and phlegm: Lycoris radiata and Arisaema consanguineum. When they are both raw, pound them into cakes together, steam them four or five times in a steamer, put them in a thin kudzu vine bag, roast them temporarily, and make them into powder. Steam them into cakes as big as walnuts. Take three pills each time, with warm wine. For pain in the waist and legs, take the medicine on an empty stomach; for pain in the arms, take the medicine after meals. (Continuation of the Faith)

③To treat blood-wind in women, and stop the pain according to the location of the pain: half a liang each of flos lycopodii, dried scorpion (whole, fried), aconite (roasted, peeled and navel removed), and 20 earthworms (dried in the shade). Grind the above four ingredients into powder, and make into pills as big as red beans with refined honey. Take five to seven pills each time, with wine boiled with Schizonepeta tenuifolia, twice a day. (The Pills of the Holy Relics)

④Treat left paralysis and right insufficiency: Raw and dried Rehmannia root, Vitex rotundus (remove the white part), Bombyx batryticatus (fried, remove the silk), one liang each, Aconiti Lateralis Preparata (peeled), half a liang, Lycopodiella flower (fried), Arisaema consanguineum, White Gum, Aconitum carmichaelii (fried), one liang each. Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, boil the pinellia powder with wine into a paste, and make into pills as big as longan. Take one pill each time, divided into four doses, swallow with wine, two doses per day. ("Ju Fang" Fu Hu Dan)

⑤Treat neuralgia and migraine: Mash fresh wolfsbane and apply it on the back of the head or painful area for two to three hours. (Commonly used herbal medicines among Zhejiang folks)

⑥For treating injuries from falls: 3.32 qian, 1 liang of small bone marrow, 2 liang of zelan. Mash them together, heat them with wine, and apply to the affected area. (Guangxi Chinese Herbal Medicine)