White Aconite should be a familiar traditional Chinese medicine for female friends, mainly because it has certain beauty effects, so it is loved by female friends. Let's learn about the efficacy and usage of White Aconite together!
【Efficacy of White Aconite】
White Aconite is warm in nature and mainly used for cold phlegm and damp phlegm conditions. For example, when phlegm and cold evil invade the lungs, leading to symptoms such as cough, wheezing, and abundant clear phlegm, White Aconite can be used in combination with dried ginger and asarum to warm the lungs, dry dampness, and eliminate phlegm.
White Aconite can dispel wind and stop spasms, mainly used to treat symptoms caused by stroke, such as facial and eye deviation, limb weakness, limb spasms, dizziness, and vertigo. If there is phlegm and dampness accompanying the stroke, known as wind-phlegm condition, White Aconite has a better therapeutic effect.
White Aconite can detoxify and disperse lumps, mainly used to treat scrofula and phlegm nodules. Scrofula is a disease characterized by varying sizes of nodules in the neck, similar to what we now call lymph node tuberculosis.
White Aconite can dissolve lumps, and pharmacological research has also found that White Aconite's effect against Mycobacterium tuberculosis is second only to streptomycin, so it can treat scrofula.
【Usage of White Aconite】
1. It should be processed before internal use.
2. For conditions with abundant wind-phlegm, constrained meridians, and limb discomfort, it can be used in combination with Arisaema, Pinellia, and Aconitum carmichaelii to enhance the effect of eliminating phlegm and promoting meridian circulation.
3. If wind evil attacks the face, and there is wind-phlegm obstructing the meridians, resulting in symptoms such as facial and eye deviation, it can be used in combination with silkworm, scorpion, etc., to dispel wind and stop spasms.
4. For scrofula with lumps and pain in the neck caused by phlegm and qi stagnation, fresh White Aconite can be mashed and applied to the affected area; or used in combination with Pinellia, Fritillaria, Forsythia, etc.
【Treatment Methods of White Aconite】
1. For epilepsy: 60g Cortex Moutan, 15g White Aconite, 90g Pinellia, Arisaema, Bungarus multicinctus, scorpion, 45g silkworm, ginger juice mixed into pills the size of mung beans, take 3 pills each time, swallow with rice soup.
2. For hemiplegia caused by stroke: equal parts of White Aconite, White Silkworm, and scorpion (detoxified), grind into powder, take 3g each time, mix with hot wine and take orally.
3. For phlegm stagnation headache: equal parts of White Aconite, Pinellia, and Arisaema, grind into powder, steam with ginger juice, make pills the size of mung beans, take 15g each time, swallow with ginger juice after meals.
4. For freckle removal and beauty: 10g Angelica Dahurica, 10g White Aconite. Grind the two herbs into fine powder, mix with water and honey. Apply it to the face and wash it off after 20 minutes. It has the effect of removing freckles, lightening spots, and whitening the skin, suitable for women with facial pigmentation or yellow-brown spots.
