Dong Quai

Latin Name: Angelica sinensis

Chinese Name: Dang Gui

Traditional Uses

Actions: Supplements blood, benefits intestines, and regulates menses, promotes metabolism, secretion, and urine excretion; has uterus-regulating, sedative, diuretic, and antibacterial effects.

Applications: Headache due to deficiency of blood; chest and abdominal pain, constipation, amenorrhea, menorrhalgia, and functional bleeding. It is used in treating leukemia, breast cancer, liver cancer, and thyroid cancer in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Reference: Hung-yen Hsu, Ph.D. and Associates: Oriental Materia Medica A Concise Guide 1986, Keats Publishing