Meadow Monkshood
Aconitum Umbrosum
Cao Di Wu Tou

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Part(s) used

Root

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To dispel wind and dissipate cold, dispel damp and relieve pain.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Wind-cold-damp impediment, pain in limbs, hypertonicity of limbs, neuralgia, knocks and falls, osteoarthritis, cold pain in heart and abdomen, welling abscess and flat abscess with clove sore.