Trichocarpinine (1), the first hetidine-hetisine type bisditerpenoid alkaloid, was isolated from the whole herbs of Aconitum tanguticum var. trichocarpum. Its structure was determined by a combination of spectroscopic techniques, including HR-ESI-MS and 1D- and 2D-NMR experiments. Its plausible biogenetic pathway was proposed as well (Scheme).