Dang Gui
Name: Chinese Angelica Root (當歸)
Pinyin: Dang Gui
Pharm. Name: Radix Angelicae Sinensis
Properties:
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Taste |
Characteristics |
Organs |
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Sweet, Acrid, Bitter |
Tonify blood, activate blood, alleviate pain, regulate menstruation, and moisten intestines |
Heart |
Description:
It is an essential herb to tonify blood and it’s normally indicated for all kinds of blood deficiency syndromes, especially for blood deficiency with blood stasis because it is skilled in tonifying blood. It is also for all kinds of pain syndromes caused by blood deficiency, blood stasis, and congealing cold with blood stasis because it can tonify blood, activate blood, dispel cold and alleviate pain. The combinations are variously based on different pain causes, for abdomen pain due to blood deficiency with a cold pathogen, it is combined with interior-warming and cold-dispelling herbs.