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<record type="herb" updated="2026-09-18T16:36:35.62004+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">Fu Zi</name>
    <name type="chinese">制附子</name>
    <name type="latin">Radix Aconti Lateralis Preparata</name>
    <name type="english">prepared aconite root</name>
    <name type="japanese">seibushi</name>
    <name type="korean">jebuja</name>
  </names>
  <category>Warm Interior, Expel Cold</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Spleen</channel>
    <channel>Heart</channel>
    <channel>Kidney</channel>
  </channels>
  <safety toxic="true">Recorded toxic in this catalogue. Read the cautions on the record.</safety>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Restores devastated Yang and rescues from collapse</summary>
      <indication>Collapse of Yang: chills, cold limbs and cold sweat, watery stools or diarrhea with undigested food, and a faint pulse that can barely be felt, often following severe vomiting, diarrhea or sweating</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms the Ming Men Fire and supports the Yang of the Heart, Spleen and Kidneys</summary>
      <indication>Heart Yang deficiency</indication>
      <indication>Spleen Yang deficiency</indication>
      <indication>Kidney Yang deficiency</indication>
      <indication>Interior Cold arising from any of these Yang deficiencies</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Disperses Cold and Damp, warms the channels and stops pain</summary>
      <indication>Wind-Damp-Cold Bi</indication>
      <indication>Cold that has settled in the vessels, sinews, bones, channels and organs</indication>
      <indication>Flat, Yin-type abscesses</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
