It grows in the humid grassland of high mountains or the forest edge of hillsides, mainly in the northeast and north China. When the stems and leaves wither in autumn, it is excavated to remove the mud and sediment from the roots, dried, used raw or used after processing. [identification features] perennial deciduous climbing vines, vines can reach several meters. Rootstock fleshy oblong conical strip root. The skin is dark brown. There are many wrinkles, dust flying out at intervals, and the section is yellowish. The edge is regular, and a brown layer wheel can be seen when it is full. The rattan is cylindrical.

Aconitum can be roughly divided into Radix Aconiti and Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii, and both of them are used as drugs to dispel wind-cold in TCM clinic. Because they are very similar in usage, dosage and precautions, they can generally be compared. However, the toxicity of Aconitum is too strong, and Aconitum kusnezoffii is pungent and bitter, and its nature is warm and toxic. Heart, liver, kidney and spleen meridian. It has the effects of expelling pathogenic wind and dampness, warming channels, dispelling cold and relieving pain. It can be used for treating cold-dampness headache, body pain, arthralgia due to wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, numbness of hands and feet, and muscle spasm pain due to apoplexy.

Aconitum has the function of promoting blood circulation and qi circulation, and can be used to treat dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, amenorrhea and abdominal pain caused by blood stasis. Aconitum is a cold plant, which has the function of cooling blood. It can be used to treat nosebleed, hematemesis, hemoptysis, hematochezia, hematuria, metrorrhagia and metrorrhagia caused by blood heat, and aconitine is also contained in kusnezoff monkshood root, which can easily lead to poisoning if used improperly. Its manifestations are basically the same as those of Radix Aconiti, such as numbness of tongue, limbs or whole body, nausea, vomiting, irritability, even coma, pale skin, palpitation and shortness of breath, slow heart rate, arrhythmia, and a few of them show an increase in heart rate.

Aconitum is a Ranunculaceae plant, which has great toxicity, and its aliases are: Aconitum kusnezoffii, Fuzi Flower, Golden Crow, Monologue Grass, Chicken Poison, Herba Lysimachiae, Poison Gong, Poison Xi and so on. The mother root is Aconitum, which is an antispasmodic, wind-curing and rheumatic neuralgia. The lateral root (sub-root) is used as medicine, called aconite. The lateral root (sub-root) of Aconitum carmichaeli is called Aconitum carmichaeli, which is a traditional Chinese medicine for warming kidney and tonifying yang. It can also dispel wind and remove dampness, warm channels and relieve pain, and has a good effect on patients with yang deficiency, weakness, wind-cold-dampness arthralgia and so on. It is highly toxic and needs to be processed before it can be used as medicine. It cannot be taken directly.