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title: "Zhi Fu Zi"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/646/zhi-fu-zi"
---

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# Zhi Fu Zi

### Aconiti Radix Lateralis preparata

_acrid, hot, toxic_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Warm the Interior and Expel Cold**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Diarrhea
- Chills
- Cold extremities
- Faint pulse
- Heart weakness
- Spleen weakness
- Kidney yang deficiency
- Pain

Zhi Fu Zi is acrid, toxic, and hot. It enters the heart, spleen, and
kidney systems. Zhi Fu Zi is used when yang is severely
compromised or when there are cold patterns blocking function
and flow of qi and blood.

**Channels:** heart, spleen, kidney

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Arthritis
- Excess sweating
- Diarrhea
- Pain in the abdomen
- Edema
- Ascites
- Erectile dysfunction
- High blood pressure
- Hypoadrenia

**Formulas:**
- Bai Tong Tang
- Da Huang Fu Zi Tang
- Di Huang Yin Zi
- Fu Zi Li Zhong Wan
- Gui Zhi Jia Fu Zi Tang
- Gui Zhi Shao Yao Zhi Mu Tang
- Huang Tu Tang
- Jia Wei Shen Qi Wan
- Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan
- Ma Huang Xi Xin Fu Zi Tang
- Shen Fu Tang
- Shen Qi Wan
- Shi Pi Yin
- Si Ni Jia Ren Shen Tang
- Si Ni Tang
- Tong Mai Si Ni Tang
- Tu Si Zi Wan
- Wen Pi Tang
- Wu Mei Wan
- You Gui Wan
- You Gui Yin
- Zai Zao San
- Zhen Wu Tang

**Contraindications:** do not prescribe Zhi Fu Zi to pregnant
patients or patients that present with true heat false cold
patterns or patients that have significant heat patterns from
deficiency, do not combine with Wu Gong

**Zoo Image:** a lion doctor dressed as a blue bee is rescuing a cold lion with blue
stomach and limbs that is lying on a Yang-Erator bed, x-rays of heart, spleen,
and a kidney watch

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