Dispels wind, disperses cold and stops pain; Reduces swellings, induces ulcerations, and dispels putrefaction.*

Acrid, hot, and toxic, Aconiti Radix preparata (zhi chuan wu) enters the Liver and Spleen channels, as well as the gate of vitality, according to Master Shen\\'s Book for Revering Life. It eliminates cold-dampness, and stops pain. The herb is most often used in the treatment of painful obstruction due to pathogenic wind, dampness, or cold, wind pain in the joints, hemiplegia, headache from wind-cold, cold leading to abdominal pain, and toxic swollen yin flat abscesses.* (from Chinese Herbal Medicine Materica Medica, 3rd ed.

From Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

• Dispels wind, disperses cold, and stops pain:  for painful obstruction, headache, and abdominal pain for wind-cold-dampness.  Can be applied topically.*
• Reduces swellings, induces ulcerations, and dispels putretaction:  used externally for yin flat abscesses.  Used when the hard abscesses do not soften and ulcerate, as they normally do when beginning to heal, or when ulceration does no lead to healing.*