The main functions are to restore yang to save the adverse, to replenish fire and help yang, and to drive away cold and dampness. It can be used for treating yang deficiency, weakness of limbs, sexual impotence, palace cold, heart cold and pain, vomiting and diarrhea due to deficiency and cold, edema due to yin cold, exogenous pathogenic factors due to yang deficiency, arthralgia due to cold and dampness, and gangrene and ulcer due to yin. In fact, the function of aconite is very wide, which is far from reflecting the whole picture.
Usage and dosage: 3 ~ 15g.
Note that pregnant women are forbidden. It is not suitable to be used with Pinellia ternata, Trichosanthes kirilowii, Fritillaria, Ampelopsis and Bletilla striata.
Remarks (1) This product is easy to cause poisoning due to improper processing or decoction, or excessive dosage. Poisoning symptoms: burning sensation in the mouth, numbness (from fingers to the whole body), salivation, nausea, possible vomiting, fatigue, dyspnea, dilated pupils, irregular pulse (weak and slow), cold and sticky skin, pale face and sudden death. Rescue method: gastric lavage with 1 ~ 2% tannic acid and vomiting as appropriate; Take activated carbon (mixed with water); Intravenous injection of glucose saline. Symptomatic treatment; Timely use of stimulants such as nikethamide; Pay attention to heat preservation; Give oxygen or give artificial respiration when necessary; Atropine can be injected subcutaneously when the heartbeat is slow and weak.
Important: the detoxification method of aconite
Pouring radish juice in a big bowl, adding five dollars to Rhizoma Coptidis and Radix Glycyrrhizae, and two dollars to rhinoceros horn, frying until eight points are drunk, and the poison will be relieved immediately.
Honey can also detoxify aconite, but acute poisoning is not applicable.
Decoct radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata and radix Raphani to relieve toxicity of radix Aconiti lateralis Preparata.