What is the difference between Aconitum and Aconite?

The names of Chinese medicines are quite special and always sound confusing, but if you can truly understand Chinese medicine, you will not be blind in the process of using it. Everyone has heard of Aconitum and Fuzi, but few people will combine these two together, and they don’t know if they can be combined together. Here I will introduce to you the differences between Aconitum and Fuzi.

Effects of Aconitum:

Aconitum is a plant of the Ranunculaceae family, which is highly poisonous. Its aliases include: Aconitum carmichaelii, Aconite Flower, Golden Crow, Solitary Grass, Chicken Poison, Gelsemium elegans, Poison Man, and Xi Poison. The mother root is called Aconitum, which is an antispasmodic agent, and can treat rheumatism and rheumatic neuralgia. The lateral roots (sub-roots) are used as medicine and are called aconite. It has the effects of restoring yang, expelling cold and eliminating rheumatism. It is used to treat profuse sweating of the yang, cold limbs, cholera cramps, cold pain in the waist and knees due to kidney yang deficiency, cold body and love of cold, lack of energy, as well as pain caused by wind, cold and dampness, and athlete's foot.

Other names: Aconitum, Aconite Flower, Golden Crow, Solitary Grass, Chicken Poison, Gelsemium elegans, Poison Man, Xi Poison, etc.

Aconitum: It has the effects of dispelling wind and dampness, warming the meridians and relieving pain. It is mainly used to treat wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, joint pain, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, pain caused by cold diseases, etc. It needs to be processed before it can be taken orally. External use of raw Aconitum tincture can irritate the skin and is used as an analgesic. Aconitum

Aconitum

Aconite: restores yang and rescues adverse conditions, replenishes fire and aids yang, and expels 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 and cold, exogenous infection due to yang deficiency, and arthralgia due to cold and dampness.

Aconitum: dispels wind and dampness, warms the meridians and relieves pain. Used for arthralgia caused by wind and cold, joint pain, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, and anesthesia and pain relief.

【Medicinal Part】

It is the lateral tuberous root (sub-root) of the Ranunculaceae plant Aconitum (cultivated product). The plant morphology is detailed in the entry for "Chuanwutou".

【Nature and flavor】

Spicy, sweet, hot, toxic.

① "Ben Jing": "Tastes spicy and warm."

② "Wu Pu's Materia Medica": "Qi Bo and Lei Gong: sweet, poisonous. Li Shi: bitter, poisonous, very warm."

③ "Bie Lu": "Sweet, very hot, very toxic."

④ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Pickled ones are very salty, hot in nature, and poisonous."

Enter the heart, spleen and kidney meridians.

① "Tangye Bencao": "Enter the triple burner and the gate of life."

② "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It enters the hand Jueyin, Mingmen, hand Shaoyang, and the foot Shaoyin and Taiyin meridians, and can also enter the foot Taiyang."

③ "Ben Cao Jing Jie": "Enters the foot Jueyin liver meridian, foot Shaoyin kidney meridian, hand Taiyin lung meridian."

④ "New Compendium of Materia Medica": "It enters the heart, liver, and kidney meridians."