Cooked epiphyllum, or Prepared Epiphyllum, has the effects of restoring yang to save the body (saving fainting and unconsciousness by warming yang qi), tonifying fire to help yang (replenishing the body’s yang qi), and dispersing cold and relieving pain (relieving pain by dispelling the body’s cold evils).
Prepared epiphyllum is a processed product of the cotyledons of aconite, family Buttercupaceae, with pungent flavor, sweetness, great heatiness, and attributed to the heart, kidney and spleen meridians. It can be used for the treatment of deficiency of dead yang, cold limbs and weak pulse, deficiency of heart yang, chest paralysis (stuffy pain in the chest), heart pain, cold vomiting and diarrhea, cold pain in the epigastric region (cold pain in the stomach and abdomen), impotence and cold uterus, cold yin and oedema, external sensation of yang deficiency, and cold-dampness paralysis and pain.
It is often used in combination with other medicines, such as dry ginger, ginseng and cinnamon for treating Yang deficiency; cinnamon, Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Radix et Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng and Dry Ginger for treating Yang deficiency; cinnamon, Radix Rehmanniae Praeparatae, Rhizoma Atractylodes Macrocephalae and Radix Glycyrrhizae Miltiorrhizae for treating cold-dampness and paralysis of the joints.
Note that this product is prohibited for those who are allergic to this product, allergic individuals should be cautious, heat evidence, yin deficiency and hyperactivity (yin fluid deficiency, hyperactivity of yang) is contraindicated, pregnant women should be cautious of use. This product can not be used with half-sia, piper betel, shellfish, white and, Ampelopsis and other drugs. This product is toxic, internal use should be cautious.
If you need to use this product, should be under the guidance of a physician, do not use without authorization, so as not to cause adverse reactions.