Fuzi is mainly produced in Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces. Fuzi also contains aconitine, although its content is lower than that of aconite, but it is not uncommon for people to be poisoned due to improper use. The reasons for this are related to factors such as excessive dosage, too short cooking time, and sensitivity of the body to the drug, as well as the variety and method of administration of the drug.
Paozhi: Duan Fupian: Take salted fuzi, soak and rinse with clear water, change the water 2-3 times a day until the salt is completely washed away. Put it in a pot and cook it with licorice and black beans until it tastes slightly spicy after cutting it open. Remove the licorice and black beans, scrape off the skin, cut it into two pieces, put it in a pot and boil it for about 2 hours, take it out, dry it, and repeat the process of moistening it several times until it is fully moistened. Cut it into slices and dry it. (For every 100 catties of salted fuzi, use 5 catties of licorice and 10 catties of black beans)
Pao Fupian: Take washed salted fuzi, soak it in water overnight, remove the umbilicus, cut it into slices, soak it in ginger soup for 1-3 days, then steam it until cooked, and then roast it until it is 70% dry. Put it in a pot, stir fry it with high heat until smoke rises and it cracks slightly, then take it out and let it cool.
① "Leigong Paozhilun": "When processing fuzi, use a knife to scrape off the outer skin, cut it open, dig a hole on the ground about one foot deep, and leave it there overnight. Take it out the next morning and dry it. If you want to process it into pao, don't use mixed wood fire, just use willow wood. If you want to process it into yin, remove the pointed tip of the skin, slice it thinly, soak it in Dongliu water and black beans for five days and nights, and then filter it out and dry it in the sun. ... For every ten liang, use five liang of raw wudou, and six sheng of Dongliu water."
② "Gangmu": "If fuzi is used raw, it disperses, and if it is cooked, it is strongly tonifying. When used raw, it should be processed according to the method of yin processing, removing the umbilicus and using it as medicine; when used cooked, it should be soaked in water, processed with pao to make it crack, remove the umbilicus, and then cut it into slices and stir fry it while hot, making the inside and outside yellow, and removing the toxic heat before using it. Another method is to use two qian of licorice, half a cup of saline water, ginger juice, and child urine each, boil them together, and keep them hot overnight to remove the toxic heat."
③ "Bencao Beiyao": "Soak it in water and wrap it with flour, simmer it until it cracks, cut it into slices and stir fry until yellow, removing the toxic heat."
Taste and nature: Spicy, sweet, hot, toxic.
① "Benjing": "Taste spicy, warm."
② "Wu Pu Bencao": "Qibo, Leigong: Sweet, toxic. Li Shi: Bitter, toxic, greatly warm."
③ "Belu": "Sweet, greatly hot, highly toxic."
④ "Bencao Zheng": "Salted fuzi is very salty, greatly hot, highly toxic."
Meridian attribution: Enters the heart, spleen, and kidney meridians.
① "Tangye Bencao": "Enters the Sanjiao and Mingmen."
② "Bencao Jingju": "Enters the Hand Jueyin, Mingmen, Hand Shaoyang, and also enters the Foot Shaoyin, Taiyin meridians, and can also enter the Foot Taiyang."
③ "Bencao Jingjie": "Enters the Foot Jueyin Liver meridian, Foot Shaoyin Kidney meridian, Hand Taiyin Lung meridian."
④ "Bencao Zai Xin": "Enters the heart, liver, and kidney meridians."
Dosage and administration: Internal use: Decoction, 1-3 qian; or made into pills, powder. External use: Grind into powder and apply.
Taboo: Yin deficiency and yang excess, true heat and false cold, and pregnant women should not take it.
① "Bencao Jingji Zhu": "It can be used with Dandantian. Avoid centipedes. Avoid Fangfeng, licorice, astragalus, Chinese leek, soybeans."
② "Pinhui Jingyao": "Not suitable for pregnant women."
③ "Gangmu": "Avoid mung beans, Chinese leeks, child urine, rhinoceros horns. Avoid soybean juice and millet. Can be used with Sichuan pepper and salt, descending to the Mingmen."
④ "Bencao Huiyan": "If used incorrectly for the treatment of Yin deficiency and internal heat or extreme yang resembling yin, the consequences will be dire."
Storage: Salted fuzi should be stored in a cool, dry place, tightly sealed; black Shunpian and white Fupian should be stored in a dry place, protected from moisture.
