Angelica

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

Atlas der officinellen pflanzen (2), Felix, 1899

LEFT: EUROPEAN ANGELICA ROOT; RIGHT: ANGELICA SEED
Squibb's Atlas of the Official Drugs, Mansfield, 1919
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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

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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