The efficacy and effects of angelica and lamb soup

Angelica sinensis and mutton soup refers to Angelica sinensis and ginger mutton soup. It is a famous formula in Chinese medicine from the volume of “The Essentials of the Golden Horoscope”, consisting of three taels of angelica, five taels of ginger and one catty of mutton, which has the effect of warming the middle and nourishing the deficiency, dispelling cold and relieving pain. In this formula, danggui and mutton are both tonic and warm, while ginger is used to disperse the cold. Angelica nourishes blood and moves blood stagnation, ginger disperses cold and moves qi stagnation, mutton is thick and warm, replenishes qi and generates blood, replenishes qi and gets warm, then blood disperses and pain stops. The symptoms include pain in the abdomen, warmth and pressure, or pain in the abdomen, white face, pale lips and tongue, and slow or sunken pulse. This formula is mainly used for treating blood deficiency and internal cold symptoms of abdominal cramps after childbirth, and pain in the abdomen, regardless of whether the pain is fast or slow, which is caused by blood deficiency and internal cold, combined with this formula. This formula can also be used in treating dysmenorrhea in women belonging to the deficiency-cold syndrome. Nowadays, this formula is commonly used to treat hernia, amenorrhea and postpartum abdominal pain.