chuan wu

Name: chuan wu
Creator: Bencao Index

Extremely toxic

Toxicity graded by Sacred Lotus.

About chuan wu

Chuan Wu is the mother root of aconite, unprocessed. The catalogue holds the name and nothing else.

Names

Pinyin	chuan wu

Actions and indications

Dispels Wind-Damp and warms the channels

Chronic Wind-Cold-Damp Bi with severe, fixed pain of the joints and limbs that gets worse in the cold

Disperses Cold and relieves severe pain

Cold pain in the abdomen, or in the chest and Heart region
Cold Shan (hernia-type) pain
Pain from traumatic injury

Relieves pain (external use)

Cold-Damp aching and swelling, applied to the skin; classically the unprocessed root was used only this way

Cautions

caution Extremely toxic, with cardioactive alkaloids and a narrow margin of safety: use only the processed root, in small amounts, decocted first for a long time, and only under qualified professional supervision
pregnancy Contraindicated in pregnancy
contraindication Yin deficiency with Heat
contraindication False Cold patterns
caution Do not take with alcohol, which increases absorption and toxicity of its alkaloids

Interactions

Drug interactions

Antiarrhythmics, cardiac glycosides and other medicines that act on the heart: added risk is plausible given its heart-active alkaloids; controlled clinical data are scarce, so management belongs with a qualified practitioner

Prepared forms (1)

zhi chuan wu Zhi

制川乌·Radix Aconiti Praeparata

Zhi chuan wu (制川乌) is the processed main root of Sichuan aconite, a Ranunculaceae species supplied as Radix Aconiti Praeparata. The catalogue files it among the substances that warm the interior and expel Cold, and records it as entering the Liver and Spleen channels.

The catalogue records no separate actions, dose or cautions for this preparation. Unless noted above it follows chuan wu.

Used in 2 formulas: wu tou tang, xiao huo luo dan

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