Angelica

Canda (Unani)
Picture Historia unnd Beschreibung Influentischer, Thurneisserus, 1578

Picture Atlas der officinellen pflanzen (2), Felix, 1899

Picture Picture
LEFT: EUROPEAN ANGELICA ROOT; RIGHT: ANGELICA SEED
Squibb’s Atlas of the Official Drugs, Mansfield, 1919
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Botanical name:


Angelica archangelica

Parts used:


Root; also the Seed

Temperature & Taste:


Warm, dry. Pungent

Classifications:


3A. SUDORIFICS & DIAPHORETICS.    3C. ALEXIPHARMICS.    3D. CORDIALS & CARDIACS.   3G. EMMENAGOGUE.   3K. EXPECTORANT
3P. MASTICATORIES & STERNUTATORIES.
4c. CARDIAC.   4i. UTERINE

Uses:


1. Clears Wind-Cold, Resists Poison:
–Cold, Flu, Acute Fever
-used to prevent and treat Plague, Infectious and Epidemic diseases
-Venom including bites of Rabid Dogs
–‘It expelleth Wind that is in the body, and easeth the pain that cometh from the same’. (Culpeper)
-Wind-Cold pains: Headache, Migraine, Neuralgia, Arthritis, Lumbago, Sciatica

2. Clears Phlegm, Stops Cough:
-Cough, Chronic Bronchitis, Asthma, Pleurisy
-the root chewed cleanses the Chest and stops chronic Cough (Herbarium Horstianum, 1630)

3. Cordial and Cardiac:
-‘Cheers the Heart, Revives the Spirits’.
-‘expels all infection from the Heart’

4. Moves the Blood, Promotes Menstruation
-Amenorrhea, Dysmenorrhea
-Promotes Birth
-‘suffocation of the Uterus’
-Seed has been used to promote Fertility

5. Warms the Stomach:
-Indigestion, poor Appetite, Colic

6. Clears Damp, Promotes Urine:
-strangury, painful urine, stoppage of Urine

7. Externally:
-internally and topically for Wounds and old Ulcers
-ointment is beneficial for the Skin (like Dang Gui)
-distilled water is dropped into the eyes for dimness of sight
-plaster was applied to venomous Bites
-plaster or poultice can be applied to the chest or upper back for Bronchitis and Pleurisy

Dose:


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Main Combinations:


Angelica & Zedoary

1. Acute Cold or Flu, combine Angelica with Elder flower
2. Acute, Epidemic Cough, combine Angelica with … available in PRO version
3. Catarrh, Angelica with … available in PRO version
4. To preserve against infection:
i. Angelica with … available in PRO version
ii. Angelica with … available in PRO version
iii. Angelica with … available in PRO version
5. Spotted Fevers, Angelica with … available in PRO version
6. Headache from Wind-Cold, or to promote Menstruation, Angelica with … available in PRO version
7. To promote Menstruation, Angelica with … available in PRO version
8. As a tonic to Mother and Child, combine Angelica with … available in PRO version
9. Infertility, combine Angelica … available in PRO version
10. Gastric Ulcers, Angelica with … available in PRO version
11. To strengthen the Heart and Vital Spirits (Qi):
i. Angelica with … available in PRO version
ii. Angelica with … available in PRO version
12. Lethargy, combine Angelica with … available in PRO version
13. Trauma and Wounds, Angelica with … available in PRO version

Major Formula:


Emmenagogue Decoction (Riverius)
Decoction for Wounds
Saxonian Powder
Troches Resisting Poison
Tincture of Angelica Seed

Cautions:


1. Avoid full doses during Pregnancy
2. Avoid overdose

Main Preparations used:


Distilled Water, Extract, Candied root, Distilled Oil, Balsam, Salt of the Ashes