This product is the root of the perennial herbaceous plant of the Apiaceae family, Dahurian Angelica (Angelica dahurica (Fisch. ex Hoffm.) Benth. et Hook. f.) or Hangzhou Dahurian Angelica (Angelica dahurica (Fisch. ex Hoffm.) Benth. et Hook. f. var. formosna (Boiss.) Shan et. Yuan). It is mainly produced in Sichuan, Zhejiang, Henan, Hebei, Anhui, and other regions. The roots are harvested in autumn, dried, sliced, and used raw.

bubble_chart Properties and Meridians

Acrid, warm. Act on lung and stomach meridians.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Dispersing wind, relieving stuffy orifices, alleviating pain, drying dampness, stopping discharge, reducing swelling, and expelling pus.

bubble_chart Indications

1. Used for external contraction wind-cold, headache, nasal congestion. This product is pungent and warm, disperses wind, aroma unblocking nose, often combined with medicinals Saposhnikovia Root, Notopterygium, etc., such as Nine-lngredient Notopterygium Decoction.
2. Used for Yangming headache, toothache, sinusitis, wind-dampness impediment pain. This product is pungent, dispersing, and drying, especially good at dispersing Yangming meridian wind-dampness evil and relieving forehead pain, and its aroma ascends, good at relieving stuffy nose. For treating Yangming headache, supraorbital ridge pain, head wind pain, etc., due to external contraction wind-cold, it can be used alone, namely Duliang Pill; or combined with Schizonepeta, Saposhnikovia Root, Sichuan Lovage Rhizome, etc., such as Tea-Blended Ligusticum Powder; for external contraction wind-heat, it can be combined with medicinals Mentha, Chrysanthemum Flower, Chastetree Fruit, etc. For treating toothache, due to wind-cold, combined with Asarum; due to wind-fire, combined with Gypsum, Coptis Rhizome. For sinusitis headache, turbid nasal discharge, often combined with Cocklebur Fruit, Magnolia, Mentha, etc., such as Cocklebur Fruit Powder. For wind-cold-dampness impediment, back pain, often combined with Notopterygium, Pubescent Angelica, Chinese Clematis Root.
3. Excessive leukorrhea. This product is good at removing Yangming meridian dampness evil and drying dampness to stop leukorrhea. For cold-dampness leukorrhea, it can be combined with degelatined deer-horn, Blast-Fried Ginger, White Atractylodes Rhizome, Chinese Yam, Fossil Bone, etc., such as leukorrhea pill; for dampness-heat leukorrhea, it needs to be combined with medicinals Plantain Seed, Phelloendron Bark, etc.
4. Used for sores, abscesses, swelling, and toxins. This product can reduce swelling, expel pus, and relieve pain. For treating Yongju at the initial stage, redness, swelling, heat, and pain, often combined with Lonicera, Chinese Angelica, Pangolin Scales, etc., such as Immortal Formula Life-Saving Decoction; combined with Trichosanthis Fruit, Fritillaria Bulb, Dandelion, etc., also treats acute mastitis swelling and pain.
5. In addition, this product can also be used to treat skin wind-dampness cutaneous pruritus and poisonous snake bites.

bubble_chart Documentation

1. Benjing: "It governs women's metrostaxis, red and white discharge, amenorrhea, swelling of vulva, chills and fever, wind invading the head causing tearing of the eyes."
2. Bencao Gangmu: "It treats sinusitis, epistaxis, toothache, supraorbital ridge pain, large intestine wind constipation... snake bites, knife and arrow incised wounds."

bubble_chart Usage and Dosage

Decoct and take 3-10g. Apply an appropriate amount externally.

bubble_chart Cautions and Contraindications

Those with blood heat should avoid taking it.

bubble_chart Modern Pharmacology

Xing'an Dahurian Angelica contains dahurian angelica element, white silk ether, dahurian angelica toxin, etc.; Hangzhou Dahurian Angelica root contains 6 kinds of furanocoumarins and two kinds of white crystalline substances.

• A small amount of dahurian angelica toxin has the effect of exciting the central nervous system and raising blood pressure, and can cause salivation and vomiting; a large amount can cause tonic convulsions, followed by general paralysis;
• Dahurian Angelica can counteract the central nervous system depression caused by snake venom;
• Dahurian Angelica decocted with water has a certain inhibitory effect on large intestine bacillus, dysentery bacillus, cold-damage disease bacillus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Proteus; the water extract has a certain inhibitory effect on pathogenic fungi such as Microsporum audouinii.