What are the effects, functions and contraindications of black aconite?

Black aconite is a Chinese herbal medicine, cone-shaped, 4~7cm long and 3~5cm in diameter. The surface is dark grey and covered with salt frost, with a concave bud scar on the top and tubercular raised lateral roots or lateral root scars around it. Heavy, dark red cross section, small gaps filled with salt frost and polygonal cambium rings can be seen, and the tube bundles inside the rings are not arranged neatly. It has a faint smell, tastes salty and numbing, and stings the tongue. What are the effects, functions and taboos of black aconite?

Restore Yang and rescue from adverse condition, replenish fire and warm kidney Yang, expel cold and dampness. It is used for yang loss, collapse, cold limbs and weak pulse, impotence, cold uterus, cold pain in the genitals, yin deficiency and internal heat, vomiting and diarrhea, genital edema, yang deficiency and exogenous wind-cold, damp-cold arthralgia and pain, and genital carbuncle and ulcer. In fact, Lute’s technological functions and expertise are profound, and such a summary is far from enough to reflect the whole picture.

This product is a processed product of the subroots of the green plant Aconitum of the Ranunculaceae family. It is harvested from mid-to-late June to early-to-mid August, and the mother roots, root fibers and fine sand are removed. It is commonly known as "Niluote Technology" and processed into the following types.

(1) Select a large, uniform mud shrimp, wash it, soak it in a solution of bile for overnight, then add salt and soak it again. Take it out and dry it every day, and gradually increase the drying time until a lot of crystalline salt grains (salt frost) appear on the surface of the shrimp and the shrimp becomes hard. This is commonly known as "salt shrimp".

(2) Take the mud, wash them according to their size, soak them in a solution of bile for several days, boil them in the soaking liquid until they are cooked through, pick them up, rinse them with water, cut them longitudinally into slices about 0.5 cm thick, rinse them with soaking water, remove them, steam them until oil and gloss appear, bake them until they are air-dried, and then air-dry them or air-dry them again. They are commonly known as "Heishun slices". (No colorant, black is the normal color after Chinese medicine processing or the color after Chinese medicine processing with black beans)

(3) Select uniform-sized radix spatholobi, wash them, soak them in a solution of bile for several days, boil them in the soaking liquid until they are cooked through, pick them up, peel off the skin, cut them longitudinally into slices about 0.3 cm thick, rinse them with soaking water, remove them, steam them thoroughly, and dry them. This is commonly known as "white aconite slices".

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Pregnant women are prohibited from using. Not suitable for use with Pinellia, Trichosanthes, Radix Trichosanthis, Fritillaria, Radix Bletillae, and Radix Bletillae.