Effects and functions of Paofuzi

The efficacy and functions of Paofuzi, also known as Salt Aconite, Black Shunpian, Black Aconite, Light Aconite and Sichuan Aconite, have always been the focus of everyone's attention. So what are the effects and functions of cooked aconite? The most impressive thing is the effect of cooked aconite in restoring yang and rescuing adverse conditions, warming the meridians and relieving pain, and warming the interior and expelling cold. However, in addition to this, cooked aconite has some other effects and functions.

Effects and functions of Paofuzi:

1. Aconite has a special effect of restoring yang and rescuing the adverse condition. It must be used for the syndrome of yang loss and is used as the main medicine.

2. Aconite is very effective in replenishing fire and boosting yang. Aconite can generally be used for yang deficiency syndrome and should be used.

3. Of course, Yang deficiency syndrome has different specific manifestations and differences in severity. Those who like to use aconite often use aconite, and adjust the size and direction of aconite's bias by adjusting the compatibility and dosage. However, those who are afraid of using aconite often use other fire-replenishing and yang-boosting medicines to replace it.

4. Aconite has an excellent effect in dispelling cold. It can generally be used to treat symptoms caused by the invasion of cold evil or the generation of cold from within, and it should be used.

These symptoms include the former such as cold in the middle of the body, cold cholera, cold abdominal pain, cold vomiting, exogenous cold diarrhea, cold stagnation and stomach pain, and cold arthritis; the latter such as abdominal pain due to cold accumulation, cold diarrhea, and vomiting due to stomach cold. The relevant diseases have not been examined in detail. The above diseases are all quoted from the book "Syndrome, Cause, Pulse and Treatment" and are just examples. Of course, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the invasion of evil cold and the arising of cold from within, and the occurrence of both is often based on the patient's yang deficiency constitution. In particular, the arising of cold from within has an obvious causal relationship with the yang deficiency constitution, so it can be generally called "deficiency cold." Aconite is effective in dispelling cold and promoting yang, so it is a must-have for "deficiency cold".

5. Aconite has analgesic effect and can be used for symptomatic treatment of diseases with pain as the main symptom.

6. Discussion on the effects of aconite in dispelling wind, removing rheumatism, promoting diuresis, transforming fluid, drying dampness, removing phlegm, removing wind and phlegm, and promoting qi and removing blood stasis.

7. Aconite is used for stroke.

8. Aconite has the effect of promoting qi and removing blood stasis, which can be understood from the "Ben Jing" that it "breaks up hard masses, accumulations, and blood clots." In later generations, many prescriptions for treating hard masses used aconite. Shunyuan Powder (consisting of Aconitum, Aconite and Arisaema) in Volume 2 of Boji Fang is used to treat all kinds of Qi.

Although the above has discussed in great detail the effects of aconite in dispelling wind, removing rheumatism, promoting diuresis, transforming fluid, drying dampness, removing phlegm, removing wind and phlegm, promoting qi and removing blood stasis, in fact, discussing the effects is not the main purpose. What is really important is to provide us with the main indications for summarizing the effects.

The main indications of aconite are real and are the most practical things in clinical practice. The reason we try to summarize the effects is to make it easier to grasp the outline.