Pinyin name Huǒ Yan Zǐ

Alias Manwu Medicine, Yangjiaoqi (Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine) and Kusnezoff monkshood (Ningxia Chinese Herbal Medicine Manual).

The source is the root tuber of Aconitum songpan, a Ranunculus species. Digging in autumn, removing soil and fibrous roots, and drying in the sun.

Original form perennial twining herbs. The tuberous roots are nearly cylindrical, about 3.5 cm long, often two of them are coexisting, with dark brown skin and a few fibrous roots. Stems as long as 1.5 m, branched, glabrous or nearly glabrous. Leaves alternate, pentagonal, 5.8 ~10 cm long and 8 ~12 cm wide, 3-partite, central lobe ovoid-rhombic, acuminate, nearly pinnately lobed, with notched teeth, and lateral lobes 2-partite. Racemes axillary and terminal; With 2 ~ 9 flowers, glabrous or sparsely puberulent; The flowers are blue-purple, and the pedicel is 2 ~ 4 cm long; Bracteoles subulate; Sepals 5, petal-shaped, upper sepal helmet-shaped, with a height of1.8 ~ 2.2 cm, an inconspicuous beak, and a lateral sepal length of1.3 ~1.5 cm; Petals 2, glabrous or sparsely short hairs, spur length1~ 2 mm; Stamens are numerous; Carpels 3-5, glabrous or sparsely covered with hairs. 5 capsules.

Habitat distribution is born in hillside shrubs or undergrowth wetlands from low mountains to Zhongshan. Distributed in Sichuan, Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi and Shanxi.

See Aconitum kusnezoffii for processing.

Sexual taste

Xin, Wen, toxic.

1 Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine: pungent and slightly bitter, mild in nature, and highly toxic.

Handbook of Ningxia Chinese Herbal Medicine: pungent, hot and highly toxic.

Function indications: Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine: analgesia, spasmolysis, anesthesia, detoxification, expelling wind and dampness, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Treat traumatic injury, strain injury, rheumatoid arthritis, nameless swelling, carbuncle swelling and furuncle.

Usage and dosage for oral administration: decoction, 3 ~ 5% (three times the amount of Taoerqi must be used together); Grinding powder,1~ 3cm (cold boiled water is delivered). External use: apply it with water, wine or vinegar grinding juice, or grind it and apply it.

pay attention to

1 Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine: Avoid smoking, alcohol, syrup and spicy and hot food for two hours after taking the medicine. Patients with high fever and pregnant women should not take it.

Handbook of Ningxia Chinese Herbal Medicine: Rhizoma Pinelliae, Trichosanthis Radix, Fructus Trichosanthis, Radix Ampelopsis, Rhizoma Bletillae, and Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae.

Excerpt from * Dictionary