What are the medicinal values ​​of Angelica dahurica?

People generally know that Angelica dahurica has the functions of removing rheumatism, promoting blood circulation, and discharging pus. It can also be used to treat headaches, toothaches, skin itching and other diseases. In fact, Angelica dahurica can also achieve beauty effects. Grinding it into a very fine powder and adding it to ordinary skin care products can also achieve the effect of whitening. So what other medicinal values ​​does Angelica dahurica have that people don’t often know about? Let’s learn about the medicinal values ​​of Angelica dahurica.

Dispel wind, dry dampness, reduce swelling and relieve pain.

It is used to treat headache, brow pain, toothache, sinusitis, abdominal pain due to cold and dampness, intestinal wind, hemorrhoids, vaginal discharge, carbuncle, ulcer, dry and itchy skin, and scabies.

1. Ben Jing: It is used to treat red and white discharge in women, blood retention and swelling of the genitals, cold and heat, wind (head wind) invading the eyes and causing tears, and to grow skin and moisturize it.

2. "Bielu": Treats long-term thirst caused by wind evil (long-term thirst or suspected to be "long-term diarrhea"), vomiting, fullness in the flanks, wind pain, dizziness, and itchy eyes.

3. Materia Medica: Treats heart and abdomen pain caused by blood, eliminates wind evil, treats uterine bleeding and vomiting in women, improves eyesight, stops tearing, treats bleeding, waist and abdominal pain in women; can corrode pus.

4. "Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): It is used to treat red eyes, pterygium, and miscarriage, break up old blood, replenish new blood, breast abscess, back hair, scrofula, intestinal wind, hemorrhoids, fistula, discharge of pus, sores, scabies, relieve pain, promote tissue regeneration, and remove facial acne and scars.

5. "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": It eliminates wandering wind on the skin, stops stomach cold, abdominal pain, cold pain, and pain caused by cold and dampness throughout the body.

6. Compendium of Materia Medica: Treats sinusitis, epistaxis, toothache, pain in the supraorbital ridge, constipation due to wind in the large intestine, bloody urine, dizziness due to blood and wind in women, vomiting and retching; detoxifies arsenic poisoning, snake bites, and wounds caused by knives, arrows, and wounds.

Effects of Angelica dahurica:

1. Angelica dahurica has a stimulating effect on the central nervous system. A small amount of Angelica dahurica toxin has an excitatory effect on the animal's medullary vascular motor center, respiratory center, vagus nerve and spinal cord, which can increase blood pressure.

The pulse slows down, breathing deepens, and it may cause salivation and vomiting; large amounts of use can cause tonic intermittent spasms, followed by general paralysis.

2. Angelica dahurica has antipyretic and analgesic effects.

3. Angelica dahurica has anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effects. The decoction of Sichuan Angelica dahurica has a certain inhibitory effect on various tuberculosis, and has a significant inhibitory effect on L-type tuberculosis. Effect of Angelica dahurica on epidermophyton floccosum in vitro

It has an inhibitory effect on fungi such as Trichophyton gypseum and Bacillus gypseum. The water extract (1:3) also has a certain inhibitory effect on Bacillus audouinii.

Through the above detailed introduction to the medicinal value of Angelica dahurica, people can better understand the efficacy of Angelica dahurica. In daily life, women can also take Angelica dahurica frequently, which not only has the effect of whitening, but also can regulate menstruation well. In addition, it should be noted that in addition to eating angelica to supplement nutrition, you should also eat more nourishing foods.