Prepared Common Monkshood Daughter Root, Common Monkshood Daughter Root
Radix Aconiti Lateralis Praeparata, Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata
Fu Zi

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Pungent; sweet; big hot; toxic

Part(s) used

Daughter root

Potential toxicity/side effects

Toxic

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To cause restoration from collapse, to supplement body fire and reinforce yang, and to dispel wind, cold and damp.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Yan g -collapse vacuity desertion, cold limbs and faint pulse, impotence, uterus cold, cold pain in heart and abdomen, vacuity cold chronic diarrhea and dysentery, yin cold edema, yang vacuity external contraction, wind-cold-damp impediment, yin flat abscess and sores.