Dahuricae dahuricae’s properties include grayish yellow or yellowish brown surface, obtuse four-angled or nearly rounded root head, and long conical root.
Angelica dahurica root is long conical, the surface is yellowish brown or grayish yellow, the root head is suborbicular or obtuse four-angled, with branching scars, longitudinal wrinkles and lenticel-like transverse protuberances, and some of them can be arranged into four longitudinal rows; the root is about 10-25cm long, and the diameter is about 1.5-2.5cm.
Angelica dahurica has a depressed stem scar at the tip, which can form a layer ring brown, suborbicular or nearly square, firm, powdery, white or grayish-white in cross section, the skin can be scattered with brown oil spots. Gas aromatic, taste pungent, slightly bitter.
Angelica dahurica is a traditional Chinese medicine with the efficacy of detoxifying the surface and dispersing cold (removing the cold evil from the surface of the muscle), dispelling wind and relieving pain, drying dampness and stopping leucorrhea (dispelling dampness by drying dampness and improving leucorrhea abnormality), subduing swellings and draining pus, clearing the nasal passageway, dispelling wind and relieving itching (relieving itching by dispersing the wind evil that infringes on the surface of the muscle), and is mainly used in treating wind-cold colds and flu, headache, paralysis, toothache, carbuncle, swollen toxins and itching of the skin, etc..
It should be contraindicated for people with yin deficiency and blood heat. Specific medication should be used under the guidance of a specialist, and should not be used without authorization, so as not to cause damage to the organism.