Angelica dahurica is warm and pungent, and enters the stomach, intestine and stomach meridians. It has the effects of nourishing yin, reducing pathogenic fire, dispelling pathogenic wind, relieving pain, dredging nasal orifices, eliminating dampness, stopping leukorrhagia, and leg swelling, and can be used for treating common cold, headache, eyebrow bone pain, nasal congestion, runny nose, and toothache.
Angelica dahurica mainly contains coumarins such as imperatorin, isoimperatorin, beimperatorin, beimperatorin, air oxidized imperatorin, hydrated oxidized imperatorin, and cinnamaldehyde such as n-dodecanol, n-tetradecanol, terpenoid -4- alcohol, hydroxycyclodecane and benzaldehyde n-dodecanol. It also contains carotene, flavonoids, polysaccharides, sitosterol and many essential nutrients such as calcium, copper, iron and zinc.
What effect does angelica dahurica have? First, analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects
Mainly because of the charm of cinnamaldehyde, its analgesic management system may be based on the total number of positive cells and its endogenous analgesic molar mass, which describes that it stimulates the endogenous analgesic management system by increasing the mRNA central nervous system of spinal melanocortin (POMC)mRNA. The anti-inflammatory effect is based on its main component, imidazole coumarin. Imidazole coumarin can regulate the metabolic pattern of arachidonic acid by controlling epoxy resin agglutination enzyme -2(COX-2), thus giving full play to its anti-inflammatory effect.
Second, the antibacterial effect.
Angelica dahurica has bacteriostatic effect, and has certain inhibitory effect on gastrointestinal Escherichia coli, typhoid Bacillus, typhoid Bacillus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Gram-positive bacteria, human tuberculosis, pathogenic bacteria, mycoplasma and chlamydia.
Third, whitening and freckle removing effects
"Compendium of Materia Medica" continued: Angelica dahurica "has long skin and rich embellishment, which can be used as facial fat". Angelica dahurica has fragrant smell, dryness can overcome dampness, warm dryness contains dampness and cold, and can dispel dampness, invigorate spleen, remove dirt and toxin, care skin and remove spots, and whiten skin, which can be used for skin whitening.
In addition to the above functions, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae has the functions of dredging blood vessels, resisting tumor, exciting nerve center and relieving spasm. Clinical medicine is common in cold syndrome, various headaches and sinusitis, gastroenteritis, menstrual disorder and gynecological diseases.