Cooked Aconite

Aconite is a widely used traditional Chinese medicine. It has always been used to treat cough, migraine, wind-cold-dampness and arthritis, etc. and has certain efficacy. Cooked aconite is a medicinal material made from raw aconite through processing. However, when using cooked aconite, it must be taken under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner. If cooked aconite is used improperly or in excess, it will cause poisoning to the patient, and in severe cases it may even threaten the patient's life.

Restore Yang to Rescue

It is used for Yang loss syndrome, with symptoms including spontaneous cold sweat, cold limbs, and weak pulse. It is mainly due to the exhaustion of Yang Qi in the kidneys and heart. This product can help the heart yang to dredge the meridians, replenish the kidney yang to benefit the fire, and save the lost Yuan Yang. It is the "number one medicine for restoring yang and rescuing adverse conditions." If used alone, it is not strong enough, so it is often used together with dried ginger and licorice to enhance the effect of restoring yang and rescuing from adverse conditions, namely Sini Decoction (dried grass and fresh ginger reduce toxicity, kill the toxicity of aconite, and enhance the effect of restoring yang and rescuing from adverse conditions. Aconite is slower in restoring yang than dried ginger, so some books say that dried ginger tends to move while aconite tends to defend). Clinically, there is often concurrent Yang Qi deficiency. If the patient suffers from Yang deficiency and Qi deficiency, with profuse sweating, shortness of breath and rapid breathing, then only the Yang can be restored, which has no specific effect on the deficiency of vital energy. Therefore, it is combined with ginseng, which greatly replenishes vital energy, to restore Yang and consolidate deficiency, which is called Shenfu Decoction.

Replenishing fire and boosting yang

To replenish fire means to replenish the fire of the Mingmen. The fire of the Mingmen is the Yuanyang and kidney yang of the human body. Used for Yang deficiency syndrome. This product can warm the yang of the whole body and is suitable for those with yang deficiency such as kidney, spleen, heart and those with weak Wei Yang. If the kidney yang is deficient, the kidney yang is insufficient, and the fire of the gate of life is weak, there will be symptoms of impotence, cold uterus, fear of cold, cold body, cold pain in the waist and knees, slow growth and development, and premature aging; if the kidney does not control water and causes edema, clear and long urination, frequent urination at night, and enuresis, it is often used together with cinnamon, rehmannia, cornus officinalis, etc., such as Guifu Bawei Pills. The kidney governs reproduction, and reproductive and sexual functions are reduced; the kidney cannot absorb air, resulting in rapid breathing, more out than in, and weak wheezing; the kidney cannot warm the spleen yang, resulting in spleen and kidney yang deficiency, diarrhea, long-term diarrhea, spleen and kidney yang deficiency, water retention in the body, and difficulty urinating, limb edema. It can help yang and transform qi, and is often used together with spleen-strengthening and diuretic medicines such as Atractylodes and Poria, such as Zhenwu Decoction. For patients with insufficient heart yang and symptoms such as palpitations, shortness of breath, chest pain and heart pain, it can be used together with ginseng, cinnamon twigs, etc. For those who suffer from spontaneous sweating due to Wei Yang deficiency, it can be used together with Astragalus and cinnamon twig. But the most effective and useful thing is to improve the body's inability to warm up. It also treats spleen yang deficiency, cold and dampness in the body, cold pain in the abdomen, loose stools, and loss of appetite. It nourishes both the spleen and kidneys, and is often used with Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, and dried ginger, such as Fuzi Lizhong Decoction. It can also be used for heart yang deficiency, mild spontaneous sweating, palpitations or chest pain, and symptoms of cold, and can be used in combination with cinnamon and cassia twigs which can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis or warm the heart. In addition, it can be used together with astragalus for weak Wei Yang and continuous spontaneous sweating.

Dispel cold and relieve pain

It can warm the middle and warm the meridians. Widely warms the body and dispels cold. It warms the middle and is used for stomach cold, spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, and is also used for excessive cold evil in the symptoms of cold pain in the abdomen; it warms the meridians and can be used for cold pain and headache caused by meridians being affected by cold. It also has an effect of removing rheumatism similar to that of aconite. It can remove rheumatism, dispel cold and relieve pain for rheumatism and cold arthralgia, especially for those with yang deficiency, but it is not as good as aconite in removing rheumatism. It can be used as long as there is cold, regardless of whether it is real or false. For positive syndrome, the purpose is to warm the interior, dispel cold and relieve pain, while for negative syndrome, the purpose is to warm and replenish Yang Qi.

For arthralgia

This product is pungent, dispersing, warming and unblocking, and has a strong effect of dispelling cold and relieving pain. It is suitable for those with excessive cold and dampness, and severe pain in the joints all over the body. It can be used together with cinnamon twig, white atractylodes, etc., such as liquorice and aconite soup.