Angelica sinensis / Dang Gui Pian M (16oz)

當歸 全歸片/当归片（16oz）

性味

味甘；辛；苦；性温

经脉

归肝经；心经；脾经

主治

补血活血，调经止痛，润肠通便。用于血虚萎黄，眩晕心悸，月经不调，经闭痛经，虚寒腹痛，肠燥便秘，风湿痹痛，跌扑损伤，痈疽疮疡。

酒当归活血通经，用于经闭痛经，风湿痹痛，跌扑损伤。当归身功效为补血，用于血虚萎黄，经少，眩晕，经络不利，崩漏。当归尾功效为活血祛瘀，用于瘀血阻滞，经少经闭，经行腹痛，跌扑损伤，瘀滞经络，痈疽疮疡。

注意禁忌

湿阻中满及大便溏泄者慎服。

【食疗方】

1.牛膝当归蜜膏

牛膝50克，肉苁蓉500克，当归50克，蜂蜜适量。牛膝、肉苁蓉、当归加水适量浸泡透发，再加热煎煮，每20分钟取煎液一次，加水再煎，共取3次，合并煎液，再以小火煎熬浓缩成稠膏时，加蜂蜜1倍，至沸停火，待冷装瓶备用。

功效：温阳通便。

2.参归腰子

猪肾１只，人参、当归身各１５克。先将人参、当归洗净，装入纱布袋内，扎紧袋口，放在砂锅内，加入清水适量，浸泡２小时。剖开猪肾，挖去白色筋膜和臊腺，清洗干净，放入砂锅内一并加热清炖。先用武火煮沸，再用文火过煮３０～４０分钟。捞出猪肾，待冷后切成薄片，酌加适量酱油、醋、香油、姜丝、蒜末等调料。吃腰片，喝汤。

功效：补肾益气，养血安神。用治肾气虚弱，气血不足，阳萎，遗精，腰酸膝软，头晕目眩，面色苍白，心悸气短，失眠，自汗、乏力。

3.归身黄花菜猪肉汤

当归身15克，黄花菜根15克，瘦猪肉150克。食盐、菜油、味精各适量。猪肉洗净，切丝；黄花菜根洗净；当归饮片洗净，装入纱布袋内，扎紧袋口。将猪肉、黄花菜根和当归药袋一并放入锅内，加入清水，先用武火煮沸，再用文火炖煮30分钟左右。酌加菜油、食盐等调料。待肉熟烂后停火，捞去药袋，加入味精少许。当点心食用，喝汤，吃肉、菜。

功效：益气补血，和血通脉。主治气血亏虚所致的身体瘦弱、头晕止眩、疲倦乏力、闭经、胎萎不长等。

Angelica Sinensis /Dang Gui Pian M (16oz/Box)

Angelica Sinensis: The root is the medical part of the plant and contains significant quantities of vitamin B12 and E, folic acid, biotin, ferulic acid, succinic acid, nicotinic acid, uracil, adenine, and ligustilide  (sciencedirect.com) 

Radix Angelica Sinensis, the dried root of Angelica sinensis (Danggui), is a herb used in Chinese medicine to enrich blood, promote blood circulation and modulate the immune system. It is also used to treat chronic constipation of the elderly and debilitated as well as menstrual disorders. Research has demonstrated that Danggui and its active ingredients, as anti-arthrosclerotic, anti-hypertensive, antioxidant anti-inflammatory agents which would limit platelet aggregation, are effective in reducing the size of cerebral infarction and improving neurological deficit scores.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3174116/

The taste is sweet; pungent, bitter; and it is warm in nature. It enters the Liver, Heart, and Spleen meridians. 

Indications:  Replenishing blood and promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation and relieving pain, moistening the intestines, and laxative. It is used for blood deficiency and chlorosis, dizziness, palpitations, irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, deficiency and cold abdominal pain, dry bowel constipation, arthralgia due to rheumatism, bruising carbuncle sore.  

Jiu Danggui Huoxue Tongmeno, used for amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, rheumatism arthralgia, bruises. Angelica Sinensis has the effect of replenishing blood, used for blood deficiency, chlorosis, lack of menstruation, dizziness, unfavorable meridian, and uterine bleeding. The tail of Angelica Sinensis has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis and is used for blood stasis block, lack of menstruation, amenorrhea, abdominal pain during menstruation, injury from falling, stagnation of meridian circulation, carbuncle, and soreness. 

Caution should be taken if the dampness is full and loose stools.

Diet Therapy

1. Achyranthes Angelica Honey Cream  

Ingredients

50 grams of Achyranthes, 500 grams of Cistanche, 50 grams of Angelica, an appropriate amount of honey. 

Add water to soak the Achyranthes, Cistanche, Angelica in a proper amount, then heat and cook, take the decoction once every 20 minutes, add water and decoct for a total of 3 times, combine the decoctions, and then decoct it over a low fire to concentrate it into a thick paste. Stop the fire, add honey, and bottle it for later use.  Efficacy: warming and laxative.  

2. Angelica, Ginseng & Kidney Soup 

Ingredients:

1 pig kidney, 15 grams each of ginseng and angelica. 

First, wash the ginseng and angelica, put it in a gauze bag, tie the bag tightly, put it in a casserole, add an appropriate amount of water, and soak for 2 hours. 

Cut open the pig kidney, remove the white fascia and glands, clean it, soak it in salt water for 30 minutes to remove the urine smell. Put it in the casserole with the herbs and heat it to stew as a soup. 

Bring to a boil over fire, then simmer for 30-40 minutes. Remove the pig kidneys and cut them into thin slices after cooling. Add an appropriate amount of soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, ginger, minced garlic, and other seasonings. 

Eat the kidney and drink the soup.  

Efficacy: nourishes the kidney and nourishes qi, nourishes blood, and calms the nerves. It is used to treat weak kidney qi, insufficient qi and blood, impotence, spermatorrhea, sore back, and weak knees, dizziness, pale complexion, palpitations, shortness of breath, insomnia, spontaneous sweating, fatigue.

3. Daylily Pork Soup  

Ingredients: 

15 grams of angelica, 15 grams of day lily root, 150 grams of lean pork. The amount of salt, vegetable oil, and (optional) MSG. 

Wash the pork and shred it; wash the daylily root; wash the angelica decoction pieces, put it into a gauze bag, and tie the bag tightly. 

Put the pork, day lily root, and angelica medicine bag into the pot together, add water, boil it over a fire, then simmer for about 30 minutes. Add vegetable oil, salt, and other spices as appropriate. 

After the meat is cooked and soft, stop the heat, remove the medicine bag, and (optional) add a little MSG. Eat it as a snack, drink the soup, eat the meat and vegetables.  

Efficacy: To replenish qi and blood, and raise the pulse. 

Indications for body weakness, dizziness, and relieving vertigo, fatigue, amenorrhea, and fetal wilt [potential miscarriage?] caused by deficiency of qi and blood.