Where is the latest production area of Angelica dahurica? A complete overview of the main production areas

Angelica dahurica, also known as Chuanbaizhi, fragrant angelica, etc., is a perennial tall herbaceous plant of the genus Angelica in the Apiaceae family. Its root is used as medicine and has functions such as dispelling disease and removing dampness, discharging pus and promoting tissue regeneration, activating blood and relieving pain. It mainly treats wind-cold colds, headaches, rhinitis, and toothache. For conditions such as red and white leukorrhea, painful boils and swellings, it can also be used as a spice. Now let us take a look together at where the production area of Angelica dahurica is!

Where is the production area of Angelica dahurica?

Angelica dahurica is produced in Northeast China and North China and other places. In the northern provinces of China, it is mostly cultivated for medicinal use, mostly self-produced and self-sold, with a small amount transferred outside the province. It prefers a mild and humid climate and an environment with sufficient sunlight, can tolerate cold, and generally grows in places such as under forests, forest edges, beside streams, thickets, and valley grasslands at altitudes of 200 m to 1500 m.

Medicinal value of Angelica dahurica

[Nature and flavor] Pungent in flavor, warm in nature.

[Meridian entry] Lung, spleen, and stomach meridians.

[Efficacy] Dispelling wind, drying dampness, reducing swelling, and relieving pain; treats headache, supraorbital bone pain, toothache, sinusitis, cold-damp abdominal pain, intestinal wind and hemorrhoids, red and white leukorrhea, carbuncles and sores, dry and itchy skin, scabies, and other conditions.

1. Dispelling wind and dispersing cold: Angelica dahurica can treat wind-cold colds, headaches, rhinitis, and toothache caused by wind-cold.

2. Activating blood and discharging pus: used for swollen and painful sores. For example, at the initial stage of acute mastitis, it can be used together with dandelion and trichosanthes fruit; when pus discharge is not smooth, it can be used together with honeysuckle and trichosanthes root.

3. Promoting tissue regeneration and relieving pain: Angelica dahurica has the effect of removing blood stasis, promoting tissue regeneration, reducing inflammation, and relieving pain for lumbar muscle strain and muscle soreness.

4. Drying dampness and stopping leukorrhea: Angelica dahurica warms and dries cold-dampness. It is mainly used to treat cold-damp leukorrhea, often in combination with cuttlefish bone and the like. If it is damp-heat leukorrhea, it can also be used with heat-clearing and dampness-drying medicines such as phellodendron and ailanthus bark.

5. Blood pressure-lowering effect: The isoimperatorin and Indian quince contained in Angelica dahurica have a blood pressure-lowering effect in cats, with the effect lasting 1.5 hours.

Medicinal prescriptions of Angelica dahurica

1. To treat headache and eye pain: 4 qian of Angelica dahurica and 1 qian of raw aconite. Grind the above into powder. Take one character each time and administer with tea. If someone has eye pain, first hold water in the mouth, then blow this into the nose; the effect is even faster.

2. To treat various wind dizziness, women before and after childbirth suddenly affected by wind pathogens, head and eye heaviness and blood-wind headache, sudden cold and sudden warmth, unclear mind, and typhoid head and eye dizziness and other syndromes: take fragrant Angelica dahurica (washed four or five times with boiling water) and grind into powder, mix with refined honey and form pills as large as pellets. Take one pill each time, often chewing it down with schizonepeta and preserved tea.

3. To treat one-sided headache: Angelica dahurica, asarum, gypsum, frankincense, and myrrh (with oil removed). Take equal parts of each of the above and grind into fine powder. Blow into the nose; if the pain is on the left, blow into the right, and if the pain is on the right, blow into the left.

4. To treat supraorbital pain due to wind-heat and phlegm: skullcap (soaked in wine and fried), Angelica dahurica. Grind the above into powder and administer 2 qian with clear tea.

5. To treat sinusitis: magnolia flower, saposhnikovia root, and Angelica dahurica 8 fen each, cocklebur fruit 1 qian 2 fen, chuanxiong 5 fen, northern asarum 7 fen, and licorice 3 fen. Decoct in plain water and take four doses in succession. Avoid beef.

6. To treat intestinal wind: grind fragrant Angelica dahurica into fine powder and administer with rice water.

7. To treat wind constipation: fry fragrant Angelica dahurica and grind into powder. Take 2 qian each time with rice drink mixed with a little honey, and take two doses in succession.

8. To treat swollen and painful hemorrhoids: first fumigate with Chinese honey locust smoke, then apply Angelica dahurica powder mixed with goose bile.

9. To treat leukorrhea, with putrid pus in the intestines, continuous dripping discharge, extremely foul odor, and cold pain in the navel and abdomen, this is needed to discharge pus: 1 liang of Angelica dahurica, 2 liang of single-leaf red hollyhock root, and half a liang each of peony root (white one) and alum (roast the alum until scorched and grind separately). Grind into powder, together make into wax pills as large as parasol tree seeds. On an empty stomach and before meals, take 10 or 15 pills with rice drink. After the pus is gone, still use other medicines to tonify.

10. To treat swelling, toxin, and heat pain: apply Angelica dahurica powder mixed with vinegar.

11. To treat carbuncles with red swelling: equal parts Angelica dahurica and rhubarb. Grind into powder and take 2 qian with rice drink.

12. To treat wounds from knives and arrows: chew fragrant Angelica dahurica thoroughly and apply.