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drug nameChinese Angelica
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[Variety Source]

This product is the root of Chinese Angelica (Angelica sinensis (Oliv.) Diels), a perennial herbaceous plant of the Umbelliferae family. Mainly produced in Min County (Qinzhou) in southeastern Gansu Province, with large output and good quality; followed by Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places. Before digging in autumn, remove the fibrous roots and sediment. After the water evaporates slightly, bundle them into small handfuls, put them on the shed, and slowly smoke them dry with fireworks. Cut into thin slices, or slice the body and tail separately. Use raw or stir-fried with wine.

[Property]

sweet and acrid, warm. act on liver, heart and spleen channels.

[Efficacy]

tonifying blood, promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation, relieving pain and moisturizing intestines.

[Indications]

  1. For heart-liver blood deficiency, complexion shallow yellow, vertigo palpitation, etc. Chinese Angelica is sweet, warm and moist, and is an important medicine for tonifying blood. Often used with Prepared Rehmannia Root, Peony Root, etc., such as Four Ingredients Decoction. For those with Qi and blood deficiency, it is often used with Astragalus Root and Ginseng, such as Angelica Blood-Tonifying Decoction and Ginseng Nutrient-Nourishing Decoction etc.
  2. It is used for menstrual irregularities, dysmenorrheal, amenorrhea and other symptoms of blood deficiency or blood deficiency combined with stasis. Chinese Angelica can not only tonify blood, activate blood circulation, but also regulate menstruation. It is an important gynecological medicine. As with the above syndromes, those with qi stagnation and blood stasis are often paired with Cyperus, Peach Kernel, Carthamus; those with cold Those with coagulation often use Cassia Bark and Mugwort; those with blood-heat tendencies often use Red Peony Root and Danpi et al.
  3. It is used for blood deficiency, blood stagnation and cold coagulation, as well as pain syndromes such as bruises and wind-dampness. Chinese Angelica tonifying blood can activate blood circulation and dissipating cold to relieve pain, so it can be used in combination of medicinals. For example, headache to treat blood stasis and cold is often paired with Sichuan Lovage Rhizome, Dahurian Angelica, etc.; to treat blood stasis stagnation with chest pain and hypochondriac pain, often paired with Curcuma Root, Cyperus, etc.; to treat abdominal pain due to deficiency and cold, often used with Cinnamon Twig, Peony Root, etc. ; To treat bloody dysentery and abdominal pain, it is often used with Skullcap Root, Coptis Rhizome, Aucklandia Root, etc.; to treat abdominal mass and abdominal mass, it is often used It is used with Sparganium Rhizome, Zedoary Rhizome, etc.; to treat bruises and injuries, it is often used with frankincense, myrrh etc.; to treat wind-dampness paralysis and numbness of limbs, it is often used with Notopterygium, Cinnamon Twig, Gentian, etc. In modern times, it is used for coronary heart disease, colicky pain, thrombotic vessel inflammation, etc., and has achieved certain effects.
  4. For Yongju sore and ulcer. Chinese Angelica can not only activate blood circulation, subduing swelling to relieve pain, but also tonifying blood and promote muscle growth, so it is also commonly used in surgery. Used for sore and ulcer initial stage [first stage], often used with Lonicera, Forsythia, Paoshan A, etc., to subduing swelling to relieve pain; used After ulceration, Qi and blood are deficient. Ginseng, Astragalus Root, Prepared Rehmannia Root Huang, etc. are often used to tonify blood. Myogenic.
  5. Used for blood deficiency and intestinal dryness constipation. It can nourish blood to moisten the intestines and relieve constipation. Often used with Hemp Seed, Desertliving Cistanche, etc.
  6. In addition, it can also cure chronic cough disease panting. Add "Lu Pan Jing Hou Lu", Guanyin saves the bitter powder, and uses it with Ginseng, foxtail millet shell, Liquorice Root Wait, it is said that "curing coughs is like a god". In modern times, 5% Chinese Angelica injection was also injected into acupuncture points such as Tanzhong and Feishu to treat chronic bronchitis.

[Documentation]

  1. Benjing: "The master is hungry with dyspnea...the woman suffers from fistula disease, and her son has all kinds of evils, sore and ulcer, incised wound."
  2. Jingyue QuanshuBencao Zheng: "Chinese Angelica, its taste is sweet but heavy, so it can only tonify blood; its qi is light and pungent, so it can also promote blood circulation. There is action in the tonic, and there is tonic in the action. It can nourish the blood. The qi medicine in the blood is also the holy medicine in the blood."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 5~15g. It is generally used raw, and stir-fried with wine to enhance blood circulation. In general, Chinese Angelica is used for tonifying blood, Tail of Chinese Angelica for promoting blood circulation, and Full Chinese Angelica for tonifying blood (tonifying blood and promoting blood circulation).

[Modern Pharmacology]

Chinese Angelica contains volatile oil, the main components of which are Chinese Lovage lactone, n-butenolide, Chinese Angelica ketone, Schizonepeta phenol, etc. It also contains water-soluble ingredients such as ferula acid, succinic acid, nicotinic acid, uracil, adenine, stigmasterol-D-glucoside, vanillic acid, gelsemium luciferin, etc. In addition, it also contains Chinese Angelica polysaccharide, a variety of amino acids, vitamins A, B12, E, and various elements necessary for the human body.

  1. Chinese Angelica volatile oil and Ferula acid can inhibit the contraction of uterus smooth muscle, while their water-soluble or alcohol-soluble non-volatile substances can excite uterus smooth muscle. The effect of Chinese Angelica on uterus is a biphasic regulatory effect depending on the functional state of uterus.
  2. N-butyrolactone can resist experimental asthma in guinea pigs induced by histamine-choline acetate spray.
  3. Chinese Angelica has anti-platelet aggregation and anti-thrombotic effects, and can promote the production of hemoglobin common bletilla tuber red blood cells; it has anti-myocardial ischemia and blood vessel dilation effects, and it has been proven that Ferula acid can improve peripheral circulation.
  4. Chinese Angelica has a blood lipid-lowering effect on experimental hyperlipidemia. Enhances both non-specific and specific immune functions.
  5. Chinese Angelica has a protective effect on liver injury caused by carbon tetrachloride in mice, and can promote liver cell regeneration and restore certain liver functions.
  6. In addition, it also has sedative, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anti-hypoxia, anti-radiation injury, and inhibition of the growth of certain tumor strains and in vitro bacterial effects.

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