Cooked Aconite Slices Classic Formulas

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Restores collapsed Yang and rescues cold collapse - Shou Fu Pian is a cooked slice form of prepared aconite used for cold extremities, weak pulse, and severe Yang depletion.
Warms Heart, Spleen, and Kidney Yang - it treats edema, diarrhea, abdominal cold pain, impotence, fatigue, and chronically weak circulation when deficient cold is dominant.
Warms the channels and relieves cold-damp pain - the sliced form is commonly dispensed for cold Bi, joint pain, cold low-back pain, and limb pain that clearly improves with warmth.
Assists Mingmen fire and lower-burner function - it supports formulas for urinary cold, weak knees, cold womb, and other chronic Yang-deficiency patterns.

Si Ni Tang - archetypal rescue formula for Shaoyin collapse and icy extremities.
Zhen Wu Tang - warming formula for edema, dizziness, abdominal pain, and Spleen-Kidney Yang deficiency with retained fluids.
Gui Zhi Fu Zi Tang - wind-cold-damp painful-obstruction formula in which aconite slices warm the channels and reduce fixed joint pain.
You Gui Wan - warms Kidney Yang and gate-of-vitality fire for chronic cold debility, weakness, and infertility patterns.

Cooked sliced aconite remains part of the broader Fu Zi category described in classical and modern materia medica as hot, toxic, and indispensable for restoring Yang and dispersing severe cold.
Daodi processing literature distinguishes cooked slices from black, white, salted, and other commercial slice forms, emphasizing the clinical importance of paozhi rather than any change in botanical identity.
Traditional formula practice uses cooked aconite slices inside structured formulas and not as a free-standing tonic because their therapeutic power is inseparable from toxicity management.