Chinese: fu zi

English: Carmichael’s monkshood rhizome

Pharmaceutical: Aconiti Radix lateralis preparata

Properties: Acrid and sweet, hot, toxic

Standard Species: Aconitum carmichaeli Debx.

Aconitum carmichaeli Debx. – Hortus, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Photo by TH. Tanaka)

Aconitum napellus – Botanischer Garten der Universität Innsbruck, Austria (Photo by TH. Tanaka)