Pao Fu Zi

Pao Fu Zi

炮附子

Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata

Extreme Hot; Pungent; Sweet

Spleen; Heart; Kidney

For warming interior

温里

Treatment of collapse with cold limbs and faint pulse, impotence, frigidity, precordial and abdominal pain with cold sensation, vomiting and diarrhea or edema accompanied by aversion to cold and cold extremities, colds in patients with yang deficiency, chronic arthritis due to attack of cold and damp (marked by persistent severe joint pain, fixed in place and accompanied by heaviness sensation and numbness).

1. aconitine is a physiologically active component, and becomes aconine after hydrolized. the toxicity of aconine is lower than aconitine.2. the prepared products may dilate the blood vessels of lower limbs and coronary artery, and increase coronary flow.3. aconine and hypaconitine are analgesics and sedatives.4. acclerating the metabolism of lipids and cholesterol.5. ld50 of aconitine is 0.295mg/kg in mice hypodermally and that of the decoction of prepared aconite is 17.42g/kg in mice orally.6.

Toxic

1. aconitine is a physiologically active component, and becomes aconine after hydrolized. the toxicity of aconine is lower than aconitine.2. the prepared products may dilate the blood vessels of lower limbs and coronary artery, and increase coronary flow

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