Chinses angelica

Chinese Name: Angelica sinensis

Root class

Another name is Gan GUI.

[source] it is the root of Angelica sinensis.

[plant morphology] Angelica sinensis, also known as Xue, Shanqi, Baiqi (Erya), Wenwu (Cui Bao's ancient and modern notes).

Perennial herbs, 0.4-1 m high. Stem erect, purplish, with obvious longitudinal straight groove, smooth glabrous. The leaves are 2-3 times singly pinnate, the petiole is 3-11 cm long, the basal sheath is enlarged; the leaves are ovate; there are 3 pairs of leaflets, 1 pair of petioles near the petiole is 0.5-1.5 cm long, a pair of petioles near the tip is sessile, showing 1-2 times of division, and the edge of the lobes is notched. Compound umbel, terminal, 10-14 pedicels, different in length, 2 linear involucres at the base, or absent; 2-4 small involucres, linear; 12-36 flowers, 0.3-1.5 cm long, densely pubescent; calyx teeth 5, thin ovate; petals 5, white, long ovate, apex narrowly pointed, slightly inward folded, glabrous; stamens 5, filaments inward curved; ovary 5, glabrous; ovary 5, glabrous; ovary 5, glabrous; ovary 5, glabrous; ovary 5, glabrous; ovary 5, glabrous; ovary 5, glabrous; ovary 5, glabrous; ovary 5, glabrous; ovary 5 Inferior, style short, style base conical. The fruit is oval in shape, 4-6 mm in length and 3-4 mm in width. It is easy to separate from the syncytial surface after ripening. The fruit has 5 fruit edges, the dorsal edge is linear and uplifted, and the lateral edge develops into a wide and thin wing with light purple edge. The back of the cross section is flat, with one oil tube in each groove and two oil tubes on the joint surface. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruit period is from July to August.

It is distributed in Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Guizhou, Hubei and other places. It is cultivated all over the country.

[collection] generally, it takes 3 years to harvest. At the end of autumn, dig out the roots, remove the stems, leaves and soil, and put them in a ventilated place to dry in the shade for a few days. Tie them into small handfuls according to the size, and smoke them with low fire. This product is oily, easy to mildew, moth, must be stored in a dry place. In rainy season, it should be smoked with sulfur yellow or baked properly.

[medicinal materials] the dried root can be divided into three parts: the head of the root is called "guitou", the main root is called "Guishen", and the branch root and branch root tip are called "Guiwei". It is about 10-25 cm in length and 3-10 cm in length. The diameter of the head is 2-4 cm and the diameter of the branch root is 0.3-1 cm. The appearance is grayish brown or tan, with longitudinal wrinkles on the whole, especially on the branch roots. The top of the guitou is round and flat, with stem and leaf residues, often with insignificant circular wrinkles. Guishen is slightly cylindrical, with uneven body surface. There are 3-5 or more Guiwei under it. Guiwei is thick on the top and thin on the bottom, mostly twisted, with small pimple like fibrous roots on the surface. The texture is flexible, the section is yellowish white, with cracks, the middle layer has light brown ring lines, and there are many brown oil spots. It has strong fragrance, sweet taste, slightly bitter and pungent taste.

It is better to have big taproot, long body, few branches, yellow white cross section and strong smell. The main root is short and small, the branch root is many, the odor is weak and the section turns reddish brown.

It is mainly produced in Gansu and Yunnan. In addition, it is also produced in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hubei, Guizhou and other places.

The roots of the following plants are sometimes used as Angelica in some areas, but the quality is poor.

① Dongdanggui root, also known as: Yanbian Danggui, Japanese Danggui. The root is hypertrophy and soft, with many branches and horsetail shape. It is brittle and less oily. Yanbian, Jilin Province.

② The root of pink green angelica, also known as yeqingui, Yunnan yedanggui. The root is conic, 5-10 cm long, 1-2 cm in diameter, brown or dark brown in appearance. It is hard and not easy to break. It is produced in Yunnan.

③ Angelica sinensis, cultivated in China, has been used as medicine on behalf of Angelica sinensis.

[chemical constituents] the volatile oil in roots was 0.4% in Minxian County of Gansu Province and 0.7% in Wenxian County of Sichuan Province. The main components of the volatile oil are butylphthalide, o-carboxyl-n-pentanone and Δ 2,4-dihydrophthalic anhydride.

The components of volatile oil are complex. There are more than 10 kinds of low boiling point components, including many hydrocarbons, including three terpenes. In addition, it contains more sucrose (40%), vitamin B12 (0.25-40 μ g / 100g) and vitamin A (0.0675% based on vitamin A). The saponification part of the root contains palmitic acid, stearic acid, myristic acid, unsaturated oleic acid and kojic acid; the unsaponifiable part contains β - sitosterol.

The whole grass has fragrance, so each part contains volatile oil, and the fruit contains more.

The roots of Angelica sinensis and Angelica sinensis contain about 0.2% volatile oil. Among them, phthalide lactone, butylphthalide, ampelophthalide and isoampelophthalide are found in Angelica sinensis. In addition, it contains sesquiterpenes, p-cymene, sucrose, vitamin B12, nicotinic acid, folic acid and β - sitosterol. The former also contains butylphthalide and cedanic acid lactone. Butanol and acetic acid were also found in the volatile oil from the roots and fruits of the two kinds of Angelica.

[processing] Angelica sinensis: remove impurities, wash, moisten, air slightly until the humidity is appropriate, and then slice and dry. Wine Angelica: take Angelica pieces, spray evenly with yellow rice wine, slightly stuffy, put in the pot, stir fry with low heat, take out, let cool. (every time you return 100 Jin of tablets, use 10 jin of yellow rice wine)

"Lei Gong Paozhi Lun" says, "if you want to use Angelica sinensis, you should go to the dust first, and the point of your head is hard. One point has come, and you should soak it in wine for one night. "

[flavor] sweet and spicy, warm.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes sweet and warm. "

② Wupu materia medica: "Shennong, Huangdi, Tongjun, bianque: sweet, non-toxic. Qibo, Leigong: pungent, non-toxic. Li: Xiao Wen. "

③ Bielu: "Xin, Dawen, nontoxic. "

④ "Materia medica:" bitter taste, warm, non-toxic. "

[meridian tropism] into the heart, liver and spleen meridians.

① "Tangye Materia Medica": "Shaoyin, foot Taiyin, Jueyin meridians. "

② "Lei Gong's treatment of medicinal properties": entering the heart, liver and lung meridians. "

Function indications: tonifying blood and harmonizing blood, regulating menstruation and relieving pain, moistening dryness and smoothing intestines. It is used to treat irregular menstruation, abdominal pain due to amenorrhea, conglomeration and metrorrhagia, headache due to blood deficiency, vertigo and flaccidity, intestinal dryness and dysentery, carbuncle, sore and falling injury.

① "Ben Jing" says: "it is mainly used to cough against the upper Qi, warm malaria, cold and hot washing in the skin, women's leakage, Jue Zi, all kinds of evil sores, golden sores, boiling and drinking. "

② Bielu: "Wenzhong Zhitong, in addition to the guest blood congestion, stroke spasm, sweating, dampness Bi, in the evil politeness, deficiency cold, tonifying the five Zang, muscle. "

③ According to the theory of medicinal properties, "it can stop vomiting, fatigue, cold and heat, break blood stasis, and cure diarrhea and abdominal pain. Single boiling drink juice, treatment of warm malaria, the main woman bleeding lumbago, tooth pain can not bear. It is used to treat patients with deficiency and coldness. "

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica" says: "it can cure all wind, all blood, supplement all labor, break evil blood, raise new blood and master all kinds of addictions. "

⑤ "Pearl bag": "head broken blood. Body blood, tail hemostasis. (Tang Ye Ben Cao is quoted as "head hemostasis, body and blood, tip blood breaking")“

⑥ Li Gao: "the tip of Angelica sinensis is mainly used to cure all kinds of diseases. It can break the evil blood and flush up the evil blood after delivery. It can remove the swelling and knot of various sores and ulcers, treat the evil blood of golden sores, moisten the dryness and relieve pain. "

⑦ Wang Haogu: "the main flaccid fluorene addicted to lying, foot heat and pain. Chong pulse is a disease, Qi is in reverse and acute; Dai pulse is a disease, abdominal pain, waist dissolves like sitting in water. "

⑧ "Materia medica Mengluo": "the blood coagulates gradually, and the heat dysentery and pain stagnates in the intestines and stomach. "

⑨ "Compendium": "treat headache, heart and abdomen pain, moisten intestines, stomach, muscles and skin. It can treat carbuncle and gangrene, expel pus and relieve pain, and nourish blood with blood. "

⑩ Bencao Zaixin: "it can cure the swelling of the whole body, the disharmony of blood vessels, the insufficiency of Yin, the stillbirth and abortion. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1.5-3 yuan; soak in wine, boil cream, or put into pill or powder.

[should avoid] take it with caution if the dampness is blocked and the stool is loose.

① Ben Cao Jing Ji Zhu: "evil Lu Ru. Fear of Acorus calamus, seaweed, Mudong. "

② "Medicine pair": "evil wet noodles, fear ginger. "

③ Taicaojingshu: "weak intestines and stomach, loose diarrhea, and all spleen and stomach diseases. They are not allowed to eat, do not want to eat, and can not eat. They are not allowed to enter the stomach even before delivery. "

④ "Ben Cao Hui Yan": "it is forbidden to use it if the wind cold is not clear, the aversion to cold and fever are found outside the symptoms. "

[formula selection] 1. Regulating the benefits of Rongwei, nourishing qi and blood. For the treatment of Chong and Ren deficiency, irregular moon water, abdominal pain, collapse and leakage, hard blood lump, intermittent pain, persistent cold during pregnancy, improper management, restless fetal movement, continuous blood flow, and postpartum Qi deficiency, wind cold and internal pulsation, lochia, Congsheng Jue, less abdominal pain, cold and heat: Angelica sinensis (to Lu, wine, fried), Ligusticum chuanxiong, Paeonia alba, cooked dried Rehmannia (wine, steamed). The total is coarse powder. Each take three money, water one and a half, fried to eight points, to slag hot service, hollow before eating. (Siwu Decoction in Ju Fang)

② To cure the moon water barrier of the housewife: Angelica sinensis (cut, baked) one or two, dry lacquer (fried tobacco), XiongSi (half two). The last three tastes are the last, and the honey and the pills are like the Wutong seed. Take 20 pills each time, warm wine. (Angelica pill in Shengji Zonglu)

③ Treatment of menstruation retrograde from the mouth and nose: first to Beijing ink grinding juice service, followed by Angelica tail, safflower each three money, water one and a half, fried eight minutes, warm. (simple formula)

④ Treatment of blood avalanche: Angelica one or two, dragon bone two (fried red), xiangfuzi three money (fried), brown hair gray five money. On the end, rice drink tune 34 money, hollow clothing. (Danggui San in Confucian Affairs)

⑤ Treatment of blood stasis, pain and distension, pulse stagnation: Angelica three Liang, Guixin two half, peony two half (fried with wine), pollen Typhae two Liang (fried), Sanguisorba three Liang, Yanhu two half. For powder, fried three money in wine, to slag warm clothes. (Danggui Puyan powder in six books of medical strategy)

⑥ For women with five colors, abdominal pain, emaciation, less food: Angelica (file, slightly fried), turtle (vinegar, slightly yellow, remove skirt thick), Sichuan rhubarb (file, slightly fried), Atractylodes macrocephala (Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae), pepper (half Liang), helile peel (three parts), betel nut (three parts), trifoliate (stir fried with bran, slightly yellow to remove flesh), Piper longum (half Liang). The last medicine is to make the last medicine, and to make honey and pound three hundred and two hundred pestballs, and pills are like Wutong seeds, each with a temperature of thirty under the wine before eating.

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