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Angelica

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Historia unnd Beschreibung Influentischer, Thurneisserus, 1578

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New Kreuterbuch, Matthiolus, 1563
Krauterbuch, Rihel, 1565

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Left: Angelica sativa;  Right: Angelica sylvestris
Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578

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Atlas der officinellen pflanzen (2), Felix, 1899

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

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Botanical name:
Angelica archangelica
Angelica glauca is used in Tibetan Medicine. It has similar properties and uses to A. archangelica, and several sources have stated that the latter is harvested indiscriminately with A. glauca. Seeing that A. glauca is endangered, A. archangelica can be used in its place.

Parts used:
Root; also the Seed

Temperature & Taste:
Warm, dry. Pungent
Opens, attenuates

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:
-Acute Fever
-used to prevent Infection and treat Plague, Infectious and Epidemic diseases


2. Clears Phlegm, Stops Cough:
-Cough, Asthma, Chronic Bronchitis, Asthma, Pleurisy

3. Cordial and Cardiac:
-'Cheers the Heart, Revives the Spirits'.


4. Moves the Blood, Promotes Menstruation
-Amenorrhea, Dysmenorrhea

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



PREPARED ROOT (Candied):
1. Nourishes Liver and Blood:
-Blood tonic in female weakness, anemia

2. Resists Poison:
-regarded as stronger to prevent infection during Epidemics

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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

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