Prepared Aconite Root Slices

Traditional Use

Primary Actions

• Restores collapsed Yang and rescues cold collapse ... Zhi Fu Zi is the classic processed Fu Zi lane used when cold exhaustion has reached the pulse, circulation, and core vitality.
• Warms Heart, Spleen, and Kidney Yang ... the prepared slice form is used for edema, chronic diarrhea, cold abdominal pain, weak lower back and knees, and deficient-cold water retention.
• Warms the channels and relieves cold-damp pain ... it is widely dispensed for cold Bi, deep aching joints, and low-back pain that worsens in cold weather and improves with heat.
• Assists fire and supports lower-burner function ... it appears in formulas for chronic Yang decline with weakness, frequent urination, cold womb, or poor transformative power.

Secondary Actions

• This Zhi Fu Zi page should stay distinct from the darker whole-root-forward Pao Fu Zi sibling ... the emphasis here is the paler standardized prepared slice lot used in decoction practice.
• It also differs from the already-live Fu Pian and Shou Fu Pian records ... all belong to the prepared aconite family, but Zhi Fu Zi functions as the broad processed Fu Zi dispensing lane rather than a black-and-white slice comparison or cooked-slice subtype.

Classic Formulas

• Si Ni Tang ... core rescue formula for devastated Yang, icy extremities, and a faint or nearly extinguished pulse.
• Zhen Wu Tang ... warms Spleen and Kidney Yang while mobilizing retained fluids for edema, dizziness, and abdominal pain.
• Gui Zhi Fu Zi Tang ... channel-warming formula for wind-cold-damp painful obstruction with fixed joint pain.
• You Gui Wan ... deeply warms Kidney Yang and gate-of-vitality fire for chronic cold debility and lower-body weakness.

Classical References

• Shang Han Lun and Jin Gui Yao Lue establish prepared Fu Zi as a central rescue and warming herb for Shaoyin collapse, edema, cold pain, and severe Yang deficiency.
• Chinese Pharmacopoeia guidance continues the classical distinction that only prepared lateral root is used internally ... never raw aconite.
• Modern dispensing inference ... most pharmacology sources discuss prepared Fu Zi broadly rather than separating Zhi Fu Zi from other processed slice names, so this record represents the slice-dominant prepared lane within that shared tradition.