Different-leaved Monkshood (Aconitum heterophyllum)

异叶乌头yì yè wū tóuYiyewutou

Aconitum heterophyllum · Plant

Aconitum heterophyllum
Photo: Artist: Vishnupersaud (=Vishnu Prasad); Text by John Forbes Royle, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Indications
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With studies in people

Cautions

Highly toxic; requires professional processing.

Indications

What AcuiQ’s herb catalogue lists Different-leaved Monkshood for. The list carries no source and is an index, not a prescription.

Back PainJoint Rheumatism PainLimb PainNeuralgia PainCold SyndromeFever SyndromeParalysis SyndromeWind-damp Syndrome

TCM actions

What the catalogue says Different-leaved Monkshood does in the terms of Chinese medicine theory. These describe the herb, not a condition.

Benefit CirculationBenefit Digestive

In the literature

PubMed records whose title or abstract names Aconitum heterophyllum and the indication, and how many of those are indexed as studies in people. A record names the two together; it does not show that one treats the other, and most are laboratory or animal work.