（草乌头。或生用。或炮用。或以乌大豆同煮熟。去其毒用。）
【气味】
辛温有大毒。
【主治】
中风恶风洗洗出汗。除寒湿痹。咳逆上气。破积聚寒热。其汁煎之名射罔。杀禽兽
。消胸上痰冷。食不下。心腹冷痰。脐间痛不可俯仰。目中痛不可久视。又堕胎。主恶风憎
寒。冷痰包心。肠腹 痛。 癖气块。齿痛。益阳事强志。治头风喉痹。痈肿疔毒。但草乌
头射罔乃至毒之药。若非风顽急疾。不可轻投。药性论言其益阳事。治男子肾气衰弱者。未
可遽然也。此类只能搜风胜湿。开顽痰。治顽疮。以毒攻毒而已。岂有川乌头附子补右肾命
门之功哉。
反（半复 栝蒌 白芨 贝母 白蔹） 恶（藜芦） 伏（丹砂 砒石） 忌（豉汁） 畏
（饴糖 黑豆 冷水能解其毒）
【气味】
咸温无毒。
【主治】
恶疮痈肿。逐邪恶气留血在阴也。除少腹血痛。腰脊痛。折伤恶血。盖鹿角生用则
散热行血。消肿辟邪。熟用则益肾补虚。强精活血。炼霜熬膏。则专于滋阴也。
【气味】
甘平无毒。（修治之法。取全角锯断约二三寸。以物盛于急水中浸数十天或百日。
取出。刮去筋膜净。以 醋煮七日。旋旋添醋。勿令少歇。成时不用火。摅去角霜。复以文
火熬之成膏矣。）
【主治】
伤中劳绝。腰痛羸瘦。补中益气。妇人血闭无子。止痛安胎。男子四肢作痛。脏气
损弱。长肌益髓。又治痨嗽。尿精。尿血。疮疡肿。
[Cao Wu Tou (Aconiti Kusnezoffii Radix)] It may be used raw, processed, or boiled with black soybeans until cooked to remove its toxicity before use.
[Flavor and Nature]
Pungent, warm, highly toxic.
[Indications]
Treats wind-stroke with aversion to wind and profuse sweating; dispels cold-damp bi-syndrome; relieves cough with rebellious qi ascending; breaks up accumulations and cold-heat pathogens. Its juice, when decocted, is called "She Wang" (Poisonous Arrow), which can kill birds and beasts. It eliminates phlegm-cold in the upper chest, treats inability to eat, cold-phlegm in the heart and abdomen, pain in the umbilical region preventing bending or straightening, eye pain preventing prolonged vision, and induces abortion. It primarily treats aversion to wind and chilliness, cold-phlegm enveloping the heart, abdominal pain, fixed masses (Pi Qi), toothache, enhances sexual function, and strengthens willpower. It treats head wind, throat obstruction (Hou Bi), carbuncles, sores, and poisoning. However, Cao Wu Tou and She Wang are extremely toxic drugs. Unless for stubborn and urgent wind-pathogen diseases, they should not be administered lightly. *Yao Xing Lun* states it enhances sexual function and treats male kidney qi deficiency, but this claim is questionable. These herbs can only search out wind and overcome dampness, open stubborn phlegm, treat stubborn sores, and attack poison with poison. They do not possess the merit of tonifying the right kidney and Mingmen like Chuan Wu Tou (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata) and Fu Zi (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Preparata).
[Incompatibilities]
Reversed by: Ban Xia (Pinelliae Rhizoma), Gua Lou (Trichosanthis Fructus), Bai Ji (Bletillae Rhizoma), Bei Mu (Fritillariae Cirrhosae Bulbus), Bai Lian (Puerariae Radix).
Disliked by: Li Lu (Veratri Radix).
Subdued by: Dan Sha (Cinnabaris), Pi Shi (Arsenici Trioxidum).
Avoid: Chi Zhi (Viciae Craccae Semen preparatum cum fervefactione).
Feared by: Yi Tang (Meli Saccharum), Hei Dou (Sojae Glycines Semen Nigrum), Cold Water (can resolve its toxicity).
[Lu Jiao (Cervi Cornu)]
[Flavor and Nature]
Salty, warm, non-toxic.
[Indications]
Treats malignant sores and carbuncles; expels evil qi and stagnant blood in the yin aspect; alleviates lower abdominal blood pain, lumbar and spinal pain, and bad blood from fractures. Generally, when Lu Jiao is used raw, it clears heat, promotes blood circulation, reduces swelling, and wards off evil; when cooked, it benefits the kidney, tonifies deficiency, strengthens essence, and invigorates blood; when refined into frost or decocted into paste, it specifically nourishes yin.
[Lu Jiao Jiao (Colla Cornus Cervi)]
[Flavor and Nature]
Sweet, neutral, non-toxic. (Processing method: Take a complete horn, saw it into pieces about 2-3 cun long, soak it in rapidly flowing water in a container for dozens of days or one hundred days. Remove it, scrape off the fascia until clean, and boil it in vinegar for seven days, continuously adding vinegar without stopping. When finished, do not use high fire; skim off the horn frost, then simmer over low heat until it becomes a paste.)
[Indications]
Treats internal injury and exhaustion, lumbar pain with emaciation; tonifies the middle and supplements qi; treats female amenorrhea and infertility; stops pain and calms the fetus; treats pain in the limbs of men, weakness of visceral qi; promotes muscle growth and fills marrow. Also treats consumptive cough, spermatorrhea, hematuria, and swelling of sores.