DONG QUAI ROOT[ANGELICA SINENSIS]
Listing description
Angelica sinensis, commonly known as dong quai or
"female ginseng" is a herb from the family Apiaceae, indigenous to China. Angelica
sinensis grows in cool high altitude mountains in China, Japan, and
Korea. Detailed d
The yellowish
brown root of the plant is harvested in fall and is a well-known Chinese
medicine used over thousands of years.
Pharmacology
Use in traditional Chinese medicine
The dried root of A. sinensis is
commonly known as Chinese angelica (simplified Chinese: 当归; traditional Chinese: 當歸; pinyin: dāngguī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tong-kui)
and is widely used in Chinese traditional
medicine for women's health, cardiovascular
conditions, osteoarthrosis, inflammation, headache, infections, mild anemia, fatigue and high blood pressure.[4][5] The dong quai
(當歸)
means that a husband shall return back to his wife, which is implicitly said to
help women's sexual health.
Dong quai is used for
menopause vasomotor symptoms such as hot flashes. However, in a
randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial shows that dong
quai is no more effective than placebo.[6][7]
Potential anti-osteoporotic effects of dong
quai independent of any estrogen mechanism were evaluated in rat models which showed
that the extract of A. sinensis may prevent the bone loss.
However, more high quality human evidence is needed to confirm same
anti-osteoporotic effects of dong quai in humans.[8]
Dong quai contains a
chemical compound called butylidenephthalide which
has antispasmodic activity in vitro and might
relieve dysmenorrhoea muscle
cramps by relaxing the uterus muscle.[9] However, this
claim lacks evidence of effectiveness in human clinical trials.
Overall, the U.S. National
Library of Medicine states that more evidence is needed to rate
the effectiveness of dong quai for most uses.
PRICE
$76.66/KG
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