Dong Quai Benefits

When it comes to women’s reproductive health issues like herb for menopause, what are the dong quai benefits probably will be the first question that comes to mind for a lot of people. However, many others might just ever hear its famous name of “female ginseng” and they have no experience in using it before. If you are one of them, probably you want to know more information about dong quai side effects and its benefits in the first place. Actually, for some women, it might take time to see the results; for some others, Angelica Sinensis can bring in almost instant relief and they can start feeling the difference in no time.

Traditional use of dong quai benefits

This herb tastes sweet and slight bitter. It might cause a sense of slight tingle when chewing. A good one should meet a few criteria as follows.

What is quality dong qui root?

  • Main root is long and strong enough;
  • Less side root;
  • Oily;
  • Yellow-white section;
  • With strong aroma.

Benefits from point of view of a herbalist

Generally Angelica Sinensis can be divided into the trunk (including head) and tail. Clinically we use the whole one in most of the cases. According to Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), it mainly impacts the channels of liver, heart, spleen and large intestine.

Through a long-term clinical observation, herbalists have made it clear that main dong quai benefits include as follows:

  • Enriching the blood and invigorating blood circulation;
  • Regulating menstruation and stop the pain;
  • Loosing the bowel to relieve constipation.

Just like comments in “The records of 100 Kinds of Herbal Medicine” in Qing Dynasty,

“Dong quai is the absolutely necessary herb in the treatments of blood disorders. It is really an invaluable herb for nourishing blood.”

Modern use of Angelica Sinensis

Modern researches have a brand new understanding on herbal remedies for menopause now. Angelica Sinensis, black cohosh, vitex and red clover benefits are the major subjects on the research of herbal remedy for menopause. So far the benefits of Angelica Sinensis have been found mainly as follows:

  • It contains essential oil, organic acids, amino acids, vitamins, trace elements and other substances that can significantly promote the body’s hematopoietic function and increase the content of red blood cells, white blood cells and hemoglobin;
  • It can inhibit platelet aggregation and thrombosis and regulate blood lipid;
  • It can protect against myocardial ischemia, heart rate disorders, expansion of blood vessels and lower blood pressure;
  • It can regulate uterine smooth muscle;
  • It can also enhance immunity, anti-inflammation, hepatoprotection, anti radiation, antioxidation and free radical scavenging etc.

The applications and compatibility of dong quai

  • Combining with bowel-moistening herbs such as Broomrape / Cistanche Salsa (rou cong rong) and Huo Ma Ren (Hemp Seeds) in the treatments of constipation caused by blood deficiency and intestinal dryness.
  • Combining with Chuan Xiong (Ligusticum chuaxiong) and Chi Shao (Red Peony Root) in the treatments of diseases and syndrome caused by blood stasis such as bruises, swelling, pain, arthritis and rheumatism, limbs numbness, periarthritis and thromboangiitis obliterans.
  • Combining with Shu Di Huang (Rehmannia, Chinese Foxglove Root), Chuan Xiong (Ligusticum chuaxiong) and Dan Shen (Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae) in treatments of irregular menstruation, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea due to blood deficiency or blood stasis.
  • Combining with Huang Qi (Astragalus root) to strengthen vital Qi in treatments of blood deficiency due to carbuncle, boils filled with pus but difficult in draining or delay healing after discharging.

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  • Combining with Shu Di Huang (Rehmannia, Chinese Foxglove Root), Bai Shao Yao (White Peony Root) or others such as mutton and Huang Qi (Astragalus root) that can nourish the blood and supplement Qi in the treatments of blood deficiency or anemia, in which the main symptoms are dizziness, fatigue, pale complexion, pale tongue, thready pulse, abdominal pain, and headache.
  • Other benefits include the treatments of arrhythmia and ischemic stroke as well.

These are all the benefits you can get from this herb for menopause. See, what it can do is more than just women’s reproductive health issues. And I believe that in the future the potentials of it will be fully used and benefit people more in fighting against difficult diseases. And the list of dong quai benefits will be definitely longer than now.