Efficacy and effects of Radix Aconiti

It is the processed product of the roots of Aconitum, a plant of the family Maundicaceae. Aconitum is a medicine that was first published in the Benjing, and is called Aconitum because it grows attached to Aconitum (the mother root). Radix Aconiti is pungent, sweet, very hot and poisonous. It belongs to the heart, kidney and spleen meridians. It has the effect of returning Yang to save the rebellion, tonifying fire to help Yang, dispersing cold and relieving pain.

Returning Yang to save the rebellion

Radix Aconiti can block heart yang, warm spleen yang in the middle and nourish kidney yang in the bottom, so it is the "first medicine to return yang to save rebellion". The Materia Medica Hui Yan says "Anyone who is suffering from yang deficiency and yin extremity, without heat in the lungs and kidneys, can take it to bring back to life." Radix et Rhizoma Pseudostellariae can be used for the treatment of Yang deficiency, Yang weakness, Yin and cold, or the death of Yang due to sweating, vomiting or diarrhea, with cold extremities and a weak pulse that wants to die; it can also be used with ginseng, which is a great tonic for vital energy, to treat the death of Yang and Qi loss; it can also be used for the treatment of cold evil that enters the interior and hits the three yin, with cold extremities, vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal pain, and a sluggish pulse or no pulse.

Tonifying fire to help Yang

To tonify fire is to tonify the fire of the vital gate, which is the vital yang, the kidney yang of the body. It is used for signs of Yang deficiency. Radix et Rhizoma Polygonati is pungent, sweet and warm, with the effect of tonifying the vital yang, benefiting the fire and eliminating yin, and warming the yang of the body. 1、It can be used for impotence and spermatorrhea, cold and infertility in the uterus, cold pain in the waist and knees, and frequent nocturnal urination caused by deficiency of kidney and yang and failure of the vital fire. 2、It can be used to treat those with cold pain in the abdomen, vomiting and loose stools caused by deficiency of Yang in the spleen and kidney and internal cold dampness. 3、It can be used to treat those with unfavorable urination and swollen limbs caused by deficiency of spleen and kidney yang and internal stagnation of water. 4. It can be used to treat those with weakened heart yang, palpitation and shortness of breath, chest paralysis and heart pain.

Dispersing cold and relieving pain

Radix et Rhizoma Pseudostellariae has a strong effect of dispersing cold and relieving pain because of its masculine nature and its ability to warm the meridians and open the channels, expelling wind-cold and dampness from the meridians. It can be used in all cases of wind-cold and damp paralysis with pain in the peripheral bones and joints, and is especially good for treating severe pain in cold paralysis.

Strengthening the heart

Radix et Rhizoma Polygonati enhances myocardial contractility, accelerates heart rate, increases cardiac output, and increases myocardial oxygen consumption.

Improving blood circulation

Epiphyllum has the effect of dilating blood vessels, increasing blood flow and improving blood circulation. Epiphyllum injection or norethindrone intravenous injection has obvious vasodilating effect, both can make anesthesia large cardiac output, coronary blood flow.

Regulation of blood pressure

The effect of epilobium on blood pressure has both elevating and lowering effects, related to its constituents.

Anti-shock

It can significantly prolong the survival time of shocked animals. The anti-shock effect of Epiphyllum is related to its cardiotonic, vasoconstrictive, blood pressure-raising, as well as vasodilating and circulation-improving effects.

Anti-coagulant

Aconite decoction has inhibitory coagulation and antithrombotic new effects.

Anti-inflammatory and analgesic

Radix Aconiti has significant anti-inflammatory effects, and medium aconitine, aconitine and hypaconitine all have analgesic effects.

Antioxidant

Aconite can enhance the antioxidant ability of the body, improve the humoral immune function of mice and serum complement content of guinea pigs, and has the effect of delaying aging.

Contraindications to the use of Radix et Rhizoma

Radix et Rhizoma Pinelliae is pungent, hot and dry, and should be used with caution in pregnant women and forbidden in people with Yin deficiency and Yang hyperactivity. And Radix et Rhizoma Pseudostellariae should not be used with Chinese herbs such as Radix et Rhizoma, Psidium Guajavae, Phellodendron, Bupleurum and Bletilla. Generally, Radix Aconiti is used externally in its raw form, but internally it needs to be concocted before consumption. If taken in excess or incorrectly concocted or decocted, it can cause poisoning.

Adverse effects of Radix Aconiti

Radix Aconiti contains a variety of aconitine compounds. It has strong toxicity, especially in the heart. The aconitine alkaloids have arrow-like effects, i.e. blocking the conduction of neuromuscular junction, and aconitine-like effects, manifested as heart rate disorders, blood pressure drop, body temperature decrease, respiratory depression, muscle paralysis agent central nervous disorder, etc. Large doses of crude alkaloids of Epimedium can cause systemic and respiratory paralysis symptoms in a variety of animals.

Tips

1. Epiphyllum has a cardiotonic effect, which increases the amplitude of heart contraction, but is easily poisoned by excessive raw use. The heart rate is unstable, and finally can cause cardiopulmonary and respiratory paralysis and death, so the clinical use of sizzling appendage. 2, the absorption of the seeds of the epiphyllum has a paralyzing effect on the sensory and motor nerves, the mucous membrane and skin sensory nerve endings first excited and then paralyzed (but no local stimulation phenomenon), so the product has analgesic effect.