Gui Zhi plus Angelica Sinensis is effective in tonifying and invigorating blood, warming the meridians, etc. It can be used in treating cold pain in the epigastrium (cold pain in the stomach and abdomen), blood deficiency and yellowish color. The effects of these two herbs are mild, and the treatment of the disease should be based on the physician’s diagnosis and use of the herbs.
Gui Zhi is pungent, sweet and warm in nature. It belongs to the heart, lung and bladder meridians. It can be used for treating wind-cold cold, cold pain in the stomach and abdomen, blood-cold menstrual closure, paralysis of the joints, phlegm (a pathological product of impaired water metabolism) and edema.
Gui Zhi is pungent and warm, easily injuring the yin and moving the blood, so it should be avoided in cases of exogenous fever, yin deficiency and fire, and blood-heat paranoia (heat causing the blood to go out abnormally), and should be used with caution in pregnant women and people with excessive menstruation.
Angelica sinensis is sweet, pungent and warm in nature. It can be used to tonify blood, regulate menstruation, relieve pain, moisten the bowels and pass stools, and can be used in the treatment of blood deficiency, dizziness, palpitations, irregular menstruation, menstrual cramps, abdominal pain, rheumatism paralysis, bruises, and carbuncle (a kind of poisonous sores, which occur in the surface of the body, the limbs, and the internal organs of the acute suppurative disease) sores and ulcers, and so on.
However, Angelica sinensis should not be taken by people with dampness (too much dampness causing fullness and discomfort in the spleen and stomach) or loose stools.
Combined, these two herbs have the effects of tonifying and activating blood, warming the meridians, etc. They can be used to treat or improve cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, as well as blood deficiency and atrophy. In addition, Chinese medicine emphasizes on evidence-based treatment, so Chinese herbs should be used singly or in combination with herbs under the guidance of a doctor’s diagnosis, and unauthorized use of herbs may result in undesirable consequences.