What are the effects of black aconite?

Black aconite is a traditional Chinese medicinal material. It is cone-shaped and not very big. It is generally black and gray in color and tastes salty, especially irritating to the tongue. It is also a traditional Chinese medicinal material that we often use in daily life. It has certain effects in treating various diseases and can be used in combination with other medicinal materials. What are the effects of black aconite? Let’s take a look at it together.

Function and indications

Restore yang and rescue from adverse condition, replenish fire and assist yang, expel wind, cold and dampness. It is used for yang loss, collapse, cold limbs and weak pulse, impotence, cold uterus, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, vomiting and diarrhea due to deficiency and cold, edema due to yin cold, exogenous infection due to yang deficiency, arthralgia due to cold and dampness, and yin carbuncle and ulcer. In fact, the effects and indications of aconite are very broad, and such a summary is far from reflecting the full picture.

Nature and flavor

Spicy, sweet, very hot; poisonous. It enters the heart, kidney and spleen meridians.

Characteristics

Salt aconite: conical in shape, 4 to 7 cm long and 3 to 5 cm in diameter. The surface is gray-black and covered with salt frost. There is a sunken bud scar at the top and tumor-like protruding lateral roots or lateral root scars around it. Heavy, gray-brown cross section, small gaps filled with salt frost and polygonal cambium rings can be seen, and the vascular bundles inside the rings are irregularly arranged. It has a faint smell, tastes salty and numbing, and stings the tongue.

[Preparation method] Fupian: Black Shunpian and white Fupian can be used directly as medicine.

Light aconite slices: Take salted aconite, soak it in clean water, change the water 2 to 3 times a day until the salt is completely washed away, add water to it, and cook it together with licorice, black beans, and water until it is cooked through. When there is no numbness in the tongue after cutting it, take it out, remove the licorice and black beans, cut it into thin slices, and dry it in the sun. For every 100kg of salt aconite, use 5kg of licorice and 10kg of black beans.

Cooked aconite root: Take aconite root and scald it with sand according to the blanching method (Appendix Ⅱ D) until it swells and changes color slightly.

Through the above introduction, we know the effects of black aconite. What we need to pay attention to is that we should not use it blindly in daily life. First, it cannot achieve the ideal therapeutic effect. Second, it may cause damage to the body. It needs to be used under the guidance of a doctor. In addition, pregnant women cannot use it, and it cannot be used together with Pinellia.