Spike-shaped Monkshood (Aconitum spicatum)

穗状乌头suì zhuàng wū tóuSuizhuangwutou

Aconitum spicatum · Plant

Aconitum, standing in for Aconitum spicatum
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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 Spike-shaped Monkshood for. The list carries no source and is an index, not a prescription.

Back PainJoint Rheumatism PainLimb PainNeuralgia PainCold SyndromeParalysis SyndromeWind-damp Syndrome

TCM actions

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

Benefit Circulation

In the literature

PubMed records whose title or abstract names Aconitum spicatum 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.

  • Benefit Circulation0 records
  • Back Pain0 records
  • Joint Rheumatism Pain0 records
  • Limb Pain0 records
  • Neuralgia Pain0 records
  • Cold Syndrome1 records, 1 in people
  • Paralysis Syndrome0 records
  • Wind-damp Syndrome0 records

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