What are the effects and functions of white aconite

Medicines are used to help us treat diseases. Different medicines have different effects in the treatment of diseases. Therefore, when we choose medicines to treat diseases, we first need to have a certain understanding of its medicinal properties so that we can help improve the disease. Among them, white aconite is also a medicine that can treat diseases. Many friends may not know much about it. So what are the effects and functions of white aconite?

The efficacy and function of white aconite

There are many aspects to the efficacy and effects of white aconite. When choosing it, you also need to be careful and not use it casually, otherwise it will cause great harm to human health and make the disease unable to be treated well. This is something you need to pay attention to.

The efficacy and function of white aconite:

The effects and functions of White Aconite include dispelling wind and phlegm, calming convulsions, detoxifying, dispersing nodules and relieving pain. It is used for stroke with phlegm congestion, facial paralysis, slurred speech, phlegm-induced headache, hemicrania, laryngeal congestion and sore throat, tetanus; external treatment of scrofula, phlegm nodules, and snake bites.

Rhizoma typhonii

(English) giant typhoniumh rhizome

Also known as Yubaifu, Niu Nai Baifu, and Hong Nanxing.

It comes from the tuber of Typhonium giganteum engl., a plant of the Araceae family.

Plant morphology: Perennial herb. Leaves are basal, with 1 leaf for 1-2 year old plants and 3-4 leaves for 3-4 year old plants. Leaves are halberd-shaped, 15-35 cm long, 7-30 cm wide, gradually pointed at the apex and arrow-shaped at the base. Petioles are enlarged, semicircular, and expanded into sheaths at the base. The inflorescence stalk grows from the tuber, is cylindrical, slightly flattened on the inside, green with purple longitudinal spots; the spadix is ​​gradually pointed at the apex and tubular at the bottom; the spadix is ​​about 14 cm long, with male flowers at the top and female flowers at the bottom, with a distance of about 2.5 cm between them; the appendages are cylindrical, purple, and do not extend beyond the spadix. Berry red. The flowering period is from June to July, and the fruiting period is from August to September.

Grown under forests or in wet areas of ravines. It is mainly produced in Henan, Gansu and Hubei.

Harvesting: Dig up in autumn, remove the fibrous roots and outer skin, fumigate with sulfur 1 to 2 times, and dry in the sun.

Characteristics: The tuber is elliptical or oval, 2 to 5 cm long and 1 to 3 cm in diameter. The surface is white to yellowish white, slightly rough, with ring marks and root marks, and stem and bud marks at the top. It is hard and white in cross section. Powdery. Odorless, light taste, spicy and pungent.

Chemical composition: The tuber contains β-sitosterol and its glucoside, inositol, mucilage, sucrose, etc.

It is warm in nature and spicy in taste; it is poisonous.

The above is an introduction to the effects and functions of Baifuzi. I believe that many friends who don’t know much about Baifuzi should have a certain understanding of it after reading the above introduction. When we choose it to treat diseases, we can follow the methods introduced above, so that it can achieve the corresponding effect.