If I can not get aconite Fi Zi, what could I substitute. I know Gui Zhi and Rou Gui are warming, but more harmonizing and already in many of the formulas that also have Fu Zi.
Fu Zi and Rou Gui, and also Gan Jiang, Hu Jiao and Wu Zhu Yu both have beneficial cardiac actions. Fu Zhi and Rou Gui both have analgesic actions.
So I know it will depend on whether or not there is cardiac disease, whether or not you need warming of the interior.
Is there one herb that you think of as a replacement for Fu ZI? For example, what would you substitute for Fu Zi if you were compounding your own Ba Wei Di Huang Wan or Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan?