Tonifies Blood
For Heart and Liver Blood Deficiency presenting with symptoms such as pale face, dry brittle and pale nails, dry hair, palpitations, anemia, blurry vision, and tinnitus.
Moves the Blood, Alleviates Pain, and Regulates Menstruation
For Blood and Qi Stagnation due to Cold type menstrual disorders with symptoms such as irregular menses, amenorrhea, or dysmenorrhea.
Moves the Bowels by Moistening the Intestines
For Blood Deficient dry intestines and chronic constipation, commonly seen in the elderly, postpartum, or in chronic illness.
Decreases Swellings, Generates Flesh, and Alleviates Pain
Can be for many types of sores, abscesses, or traumatic injury where moving the Blood and breaking Blood Stagnation will have a positive effect.
Contraindications and Cautions
Use with caution in pregnancy or when breast-feeding.
Use carefully in patients with loose stool, diarrhea, abdominal distention, and Spleen Deficiency
Do not use with heat signs due to Yin Deficiency or in Excess conditions
Women with hormone sensitive cancers such as breast, uterine, or ovarian cancer and those with endometriosis or uterine fibroids should exercise caution.
Herb-Drug Interactions
Dang Gui may interfere with Anti-Coagulating drugs.
Toxicity and Overdose
This herb has a very low toxicity.
Overdose symptoms may include drowsiness and fatigue, itching, or abdominal pain.
Dosage
4.5-15 grams 13
5-15 grams 12
Notes
Dang Gui Tou, the head of Angelica Root, has a stronger tonifying action and moves Blood upward
Dang Gui Shen, the body of Angelica Root, has a stronger action in nourishing and invigorating the Blood.
Dry frying Dang Gui will increase it's warmth, which can be used to Tonify Blood without causing loose stool or diarrhea.
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dang gui & estrogen-dependent breast cancer for a number of years now, many western practitioners of chinese herbal medicine have been concerned over the effects of the phyto-estrogens in dang gui (radix angelicae sinensis) on estrogen-dependent cancers, such as certain cell lines of breast cancer. while chinese medical oncologists in china routinely prescribe dang gui as part of polypharmacy formulas based on pattern discrimination to patients with breast cancer, western practitioners have been hesitant to prescribe dang gui to the same sort of patients in the face of concerns voiced from across the aisle by our co-professionals within western medicine. unfortunately, till now, there has not been any real clinical or experimental evidence one way or the other concerning these possible deleterious effects of dang gui in breast cancer. however, in the june 2008 (14:2) issue of the chinese journal of integrated medicine (epub 2008 aug. 6), h. liao, l.k. banbury, and d.n. leach published an article titled “effects and potential mechanisms of dan zhi xiao yao pill on the proliferation of mcf-7 human breast cancer cells in vitro.” mcf-7 cells are an estrogen-dependent line of human breast cancer cells. after subjecting cells from this genetic line to a 50% ethyl alcohol extract of dan zhi xiao yao wan (moutan & gardenia rambling pill), this extract was shown to significantly inhibit the proliferation of these cells. it did not stimulate their proliferation. as all professional practitioners of chinese medicine know, dang gui is one of the main ingredients of dan zhi xiao yao wan. therefore, i believe that this study helps to prove that dang gui is not contraindicated in patients with estrogen-dependent cancers when part of a well designed and appropriately prescribed polypharmacy formula. - bob flaws (user submitted comment).
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