Materia Medica Lesson 1-4: Aconitum and fu-tze

 Aconite or Monks Hood is an extremely poisonous plant and should only be used with extreme caution, by someone who knows what they are doing. Too large a dose will slow heart rate until you die. The doses MM recommends are very small amounts. 5 grains of the root is enough to cause nausea and faintness. Handling to root causes numbness. MM does not use root. He uses tincture of fresh blooming spike, in a 1: fresh root tincture - one once fresh plant, to 10 ounces alcohol.

Use: To modify fever with pain, irritation, inflamed and engorged mucosa and conjunctiva. High fevers in adults are rarely beneficial and costly to the organs. Topically for nerve pain near - sedates topical nerves.

*ACONITUM COLUMBIANUM (Aconite, Western Monkshood) FLOWERING HERB. Fresh Herb Tincture, 1:10, topical in moderation, internal 3-10 drops to 4X a day. DANGEROUS IN LARGER DOSES. DRIED ROOT. Tincture [1:10, 70% alcohol] FOR TOPICAL USE ONLY. STATUS : W/LA

Fu-tze is not an herb I'm familiar with... and honestly, I didn't get a lot from his rambling anecdotes. Apparently it is very speedy, can be used to help people coming off of amphetamines or can help with an anaphylactic reaction. It must be made from Aconite... not sure any specifics.

From  SPECIFIC INDICATIONS FOR HERBS IN GENERAL USE Third edition Michael Moore:

ACONITUM CARMICHAELI (FU-TSE, Chinese Cured Root Slices) 

Extrinsic asthma with dry spastic cough. 

Emphysema with dry labored breathing, sallow skin. 

Adrenal medulla depressed from stimulant withdrawal, "exhausted". 

Urticaria. 

ACONITUM 

Broad pale tongue with deficient GI, CVS, CNS, or yellow coated with fever and diarrhea. 

Chronic tonsillitis with ulcers, brushed on tonsils for pain. 

Trigeminal neuralgia. Cholecystitis - "catarrhal". 

Acute vulvitis, with fever. 

Fever, with flushed face, bloodshot eyes, agitation, bounding pulse, suppressed sweating, mucus inflammations. 

Mumps, acute (2 parts Phytolacca to 1 part Aconitum, in small frequent doses; also as a topical lotion 3 parts Echinacea to 1 part Aconitum). 

Hysteria with great sensitivity to stimulus. 

Pain, general, in the sthenic, with sharp pain, generally increasing. 

Pain in serous membranes, with fever, skin sensitivity. 

Here is the link to the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine Course

https://www.swsbm.com/school/