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Aconitum carmichaeli Cultivation | Propagation | General Uses Medicinal Information: A widely used herbal remedy in China, where it is cultivated for its root[218]. This is harvested in the autumn as the plant dies down and is then dried before being used. The root is anaesthetic, analgesic, antiinflammatory, antirheumatic, cardiotonic, stimulant and vasodilator[176, 218, 238]. It is used in the treatment of shock and collapse, chronic diseases with symptoms of cold, gastralgia and theumatic arthralgia, oedema and diarrhoea due to hypofunction of the spleen and kidney[176]. Use with great caution, the plant is very poisonous and should not be used internally[218] unless under the direction of a qualified practitioner[238]. Overdoses lead to numbness of the tongue, lips and extremeties, nausea, vomiting, irritability and coma[176]. For further Aconitum carmichaeli gardening information |
