What are the similarities and differences between the medicinal parts and functions of aconite and aconite?
The effects of aconite are: expelling wind and removing dampness, warming channels and relieving pain. It is mainly used for treating arthralgia due to wind-cold-dampness, heart cold pain, cold disease pain, etc. It can only be taken orally after processing. External use of raw aconite tincture can stimulate the skin and be used as an analgesic.
The effects of aconite root are: restoring yang to save inverse, reinforcing fire to help yang, expelling cold and removing dampness. Can be used for treating asthenia due to yang deficiency, weakness of limbs, impotence, palace cold, heart cold pain, vomiting and diarrhea due to deficiency cold, edema due to yin cold, exogenous pathogenic factors due to yang deficiency, and arthralgia due to cold and dampness.