Aconitum carmichaeli

Aconitum carmichaeli

(Hou Ningji's medicine manual)

[synonym] Chuanwu (Synopsis of the Golden Chamber).

[source] it is the tuberous root of Aconitum (cultivated) in Ranunculaceae.

[plant morphology] Aconitum

Perennial herbs, 60-120 cm high. The tuberous roots are usually two connected, spindle to obovate, with dark brown skin; the lateral roots (subroots) of the cultivar are very large, with a diameter of 6 cm. Stem erect or slightly inclined, lower smooth glabrous, upper scattered appressed pilose. Leaves alternate, leathery, petiolate; leaf blade ovoid, 5-12 cm wide, 3-lobed, almost reaching the base, 2-lobed on both sides, rhombic cuneate in central lobe, 3-lobed at first, with coarse teeth or notches on the edge of lobes. Inflorescence panicle racemose, rachis appressed pilose; sepals 5, blue purple, outer puberulent, upper sepals galeate, 15-18 mm long, 20 mm wide, lateral sepals suborbicular; petals 2, glabrous; stamens numerous, lower part of filaments expanded into broad linear wings; carpels 3-5, embedded, densely covered with grayish yellow villi. Follicles oblong, with transverse veins. Style persistent, awn pointed. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruit period is from July to August.

It is mainly cultivated in Sichuan and Shaanxi. The wild species are distributed in Shandong Province, Jiangxi Province, Jiangxi Province, Jiangxi Province, Yunnan Province, Jiangxi Province, Jiangxi Province, Shanxi Province, Yunnan Province, etc.

The seed roots of cultivated plants (attached to, lateral, and leaky blue seeds) and the tuberous roots of wild species (Aconitum kusnezoffii) are also used for medicine. See the special regulations for details.

Aconitum carmichaeli and Aconitum kusnezoffii were commonly referred to as Aconitum before Ming Dynasty. In the compendium of Materia Medica, there are two kinds of Aconitum, namely, Aconitum carmichaeli, the mother of Aconitum carmichaeli; Aconitum carmichaeli, the mother of Aconitum carmichaeli; Aconitum carmichaeli, the mother of Aconitum carmichaeli, the mother of Aconitum carmichaeli; Aconitum carmichaeli, the mother of Aconitum carmichaeli. "This is basically consistent with the source of Aconitum carmichaeli and Aconitum kusnezoffii. However, the cultivation of Aconitum carmichaeli was first seen in Ben Cao Tu Jing, so it seems that the Aconitum carmichaeli before Song Dynasty also belongs to wild Aconitum carmichaeli. See the article "Aconitum kusnezoffii".

[collection] from the summer solstice to the summer heat, dig out the whole plant, remove the aboveground stems and leaves, then remove the seed roots, separate them from the mother roots, shake the soil and dry them in the sun.

[medicinal material] the dried root is conical, 1.5-3 cm long and 1.5-2 cm in diameter. The surface is grayish brown, with fine longitudinal wrinkles. There are sunken bud marks at the top. There are traces of picking from the mother root on the side. The lower end is sharp, and there are several nodular raised branch roots around, which are commonly known as "nail angle". It is solid and hard to break. The outer layer of the cross section is brown, the inner surface is gray white and powdery, and there is a polygonal ring on the cross section. Odorless, spicy and numb.

The dry female root is slender conical or with residual stem, 3-7 cm in length and 1.5-3 cm in diameter. The surface is brown, crumpled, or with small conical nodular lateral roots, with traces left after cutting aconite. The texture is solid, the broken flour is white or slightly gray, and polygonal ring lines can be seen in the cross section. Odorless, spicy and numb. It is better to be uniform, plump, solid and hollow.

[processing] raw Aconitum carmichaeli: remove impurities, wash ash and dry in the sun. Make Aconitum carmichaeli: soak and bleach Aconitum carmichaeli in cold water, change the water 2-3 times a day, take it out when the taste is just a little spicy, decoct it with licorice and black beans and add water until the Aconitum carmichaeli is ripe without white heart, remove the licorice and black beans, dry them in the sun, slice them and dry them in the sun (100 kg of Aconitum carmichaeli, 6 kg of licorice and 10 kg of black beans).

It is pungent, hot and poisonous.

① Qiyuan of Medicine: "Qi heat, taste Daxin. It is said in the secret of indications that the nature is hot and the taste is sweet. "

② "Dongyibaojian" says: "it is hot in nature, sweet in taste and poisonous. "

③ "Doctor's mind method" says: "Xin, Wen, Da Du. "

④ "Changsha medicine solution": taste hard, warm. "

[Guijing] 1. Yaoyaofenji: entering Bi and Mingmen meridians. "

② Summary of materia medica: "start with Jueyin and Shaoyin meridians. "

Functions and indications: dispelling cold and dampness, dispersing wind evil, warming meridians, relieving pain, treating wind cold and dampness arthralgia, arthralgia, limb contracture, hemiplegia, head wind headache, cold pain in heart and abdomen, Yin gangrene, swelling and poison.

① "Zhenzhubao": to remove cold dampness, wind obstruction and blood obstruction. "

② Li Gao: "in addition to cold and dampness, we can walk the meridians, disperse pathogenic wind, and break the accumulation of cold poison. "

③ Wang Haogu: "the deficiency of life gate, the deficiency of liver wind. "

④ According to Wang's original prescription: "the nature is light and sparse, warming the spleen and removing the wind. "

⑤ "The compendium of Medical Sciences" says: "to help Yang and retreat Yin, the work is a little slower than aconite. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5 ~ 2 Qian, or into pills, powder. External use: grind and apply.

[should avoid] Yin deficiency and Yang excess, heat syndrome pain and pregnant women should not take.

① In the collection of notes to the classic of materia medica: "mangcao is the envoy. Pinellia ternata, Trichosanthes kirilowii, Fritillaria, Ampelopsis japonica, Bletilla striata. Veratrum. "

② "Yuanzhi is an envoy" in the treatise on medicinal properties. Avoid soy sauce. "

[selected formula] 1. Treatment of wind cold dampness Bi and numbness: Chuanwu (raw, peeled tip as the end). Use half a bowl of fragrant cooked rice porridge, four yuan at the end of the medicine, boil the same rice over a diffuse fire, thin, not thick, add ginger juice, tea, three teaspoons of honey, mix well, sip it on an empty stomach, the temperature is better, if it is medium wet, add two yuan at the end of Coix seed, add rice to make a medium bowl. (Chuanwu congee method in Benshi Fang)

② Treatment of rheumatism, Rongwei not good, limb pain: Sichuan Aconitum two Liang (peeled and chopped, fried with soybeans, waiting for soy sauce out of that live), dry scorpion half Liang (micro fried). On a piece of medicine, pound for the end, with strong vinegar in a cup, boil into paste, can be pills, that is, pills such as mung bean big, each take to warm wine under seven pills. (Sheng Hui Fang)

③ For the treatment of wind cold dampness arthralgia, you can't grasp the contracture pain step by step: wulingzhi, Chuanwu (gun peeled, navel), Atractylodes (thin cut, wine soaked, dry) each two liang, natural copper (burning heat) one or two Liang. It is fine, water paste is pill, such as Wutong big, each pill seven pills, warm wine, gradually increase the number of pills; to serve until the disease. (wuzhu pill in Puji prescription)

④ For the treatment of cold pain in waist and feet, it is appropriate to use paste: Aconitum carmichaeli is the main component, peeled navel, and used raw. The powder is made of fine Luo and mixed with strong vinegar. It is spread on the silk, and the pain stops in a moment. (Sheng Hui Fang)

⑤ For the treatment of beriberi pain, do not bend or stretch: Mahuang, Shaoyao, Huangqi each three Liang, Gancao three Liang (fried), Chuanwu five pieces (finely cut, two liters of honey, one liter of fried, that is, Aconitum). Cut the top five flavors into four flavors, boil one liter with three liters of water, remove the dross, fry them with honey, and fry them even more. Take them seven times. If you don't know, take them all. (Wutou soup in Jinwang yaolue)

⑥ Treatment of paralysis and wind, mouth and eyes askew, language astringent, step incorrect: Sichuan Aconitum (peeled navel), wulingzhi each five Liang. On the end, into the borneol, musk, research order fine even, dripping pills such as marble big. Take one pill a day, first with ginger juice, then warm wine, twice a day, before eating. (Shenyan Oolong pill in meishiji prescription)

⑦ Treatment of mouth and eye deviation: raw Aconitum, green alum each equal. At the end of each word, inhale into the nose, take snot and spit. (the secret recipe in the trunk, Tongguan powder)

⑧ Cure heartache through the back, back pain through the heart: Aconitum 1 (gun), red stone fat 2 points, dried ginger 1 point, aconite 1 point, Sichuan pepper 2 points. On the five flavors, at the end of the honey pill, such as Wuzi big. Take one pill first and three pills every day. I don't know. Take a little more. (Wutou Chishizhi pill)

⑨ Cold hernia around the navel pain, hair white body fluid, cold hands and feet, the pulse is tight: Aconitum big five pieces (boil off the skin), with three liters of water, boil one liter, to dross, two liters of honey, fried to make water gas, take two liters. The strong take seven, the weak take five, do not rash, tomorrow more service, not a day to serve. (fried with Aconitum)

(11) treatment of cold hernia, abdominal pain, anti cold, hand and foot indifference, body pain: Aconitum, two Jin of honey, decocting half, removing dross, five combinations of Guizhi Decoction solution, so as to get a liter, the first take two combinations, I do not know, that is, take three combinations, and do not know, add to five combinations, the knower is like drunk, vomiting is a moderate disease. (Wutou Guizhi Decoction, the following prescription is synopsis of the golden chamber.)

(12) treatment of Yin toxin typhoid fever, cold hands and feet, heavy pulse, heavy headache and waist: Aconitum carmichaeli (cannon) and dried ginger in half. The two ingredients are both coarse powder, stir fry to turn color, cool, then mash fine powder, take one money each time, water one cup, salt one twist, fry half cup, remove dross, warm. (Bo Ji Fang tuiyin SAN)

(12) treatment of children with slow convulsion, tetany, salivary obstruction and syncope: Aconitum (raw, peeled navel) one or two, scorpion ten (tail removed). It is divided into three parts. One cup of water and seven pieces of ginger. (Baby Book)

Treatment of spleen cold malaria: Sichuan Aconitum big one (gun for a long time, move a gun again, where seven gun full, skin navel), for fine powder, make a service. Use 7 jujubes, 10 pieces of ginger, 7 inches of scallion, a bowl of water, with fried to a Gu. Before the onset of the disease, eat dates first and then take warm clothes. (Su Shen Liang Fang Qi Zao SAN)

(14) treatment of thunder in the abdomen and pain under the umbilicus: Atractylodes lancea (soaked in Dongliu water for ten days, remove the black skin, slice and bake) half a Jin, Aconitum (soaked in rice swill for five days, change swill day by day, crack and peel off the umbilicus), three liang of green orange peel (soaked in soup to remove white roast), three liang of Sichuan pepper (boiled with vinegar to make bricks red, sprinkled with vinegar, covered with pepper to sweat and used for red), one or two liang of green salt (Research). The five tastes are: four of the tamarind, the Wutong, and the mixture of salt and honey. The pills are one thousand pestle, and the pills are like the Indus seeds, each serving twenty pills. (Wu Shu Wan, Shengji Zonglu)

Treatment of cold air diarrhea: Muxiang half Liang, Chuanwu (raw, peeled) one or two. On the fine powder, vinegar paste can mouth Wuzi big, tangerine peel, vinegar soup under three or fifty pills. (benshifang Muxiang pill)

(16) treatment of long red white dysentery and diarrhea: two Aconitum carmichaeli, boiled with beans, one raw for the end. On the black beans half, into the water with boiling; black beans for degree of heat, and beans with grinding rotten, such as mung bean balls. Take five pills with Huanglian decoction. (Sheng Hui Fang)

The treatment of headache for a long time: Aconitum carmichaeli, tiannanxing, etc. For the end, the onion juice withers spreads the temple. (empirical formula)

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