Dong Quai Extract

Dong quai extract and other forms like dong quai tea helps for a variety of women diseases like menopause, which might be the first and most popular perception for you. Does Angelica extract have something to do with lowering hypertension? Yes it does. After more than 20 years of research, the experiments conducted by Professor Lv Guiyuan in Zhejiang University recently had found and confirmed that Angelica extract has the significant effect on lowering hypertension.

Project about Dong quai extract

This project is called “Mechanism and clinical research on hypertension treatment with dong quai extract”, which is led by Professor Lv Guiyuan. “In the past 20 years, we have been looking for an ideal antihypertensive drug.” he said. “What is worse is that high blood pressure patients need to take life-long medication. However, the major problem is that currently the safe drug is not found yet”.

Although pharmaceutical chemicals have strong antihypertensive effect, it can not be used over a long period of time. Otherwise, joint swelling, erectile dysfunction and other adverse reactions might occur afterwards. After studying and screening 30 kinds of traditional Chinese herbs, they found that Angelica Sinensis contains a new ingredient that can lower blood pressure. This new found composition works along with other components in Dong quai to achieve the effect.

How Angelica Sinensis works?

Hypertension is a chronic disease, which is frequently found in middle and aged people. Very often blood tends to be stagnant due to chronic illness or old age. This leads to different degrees of symptoms of deficiency and stasis.

Symptoms of hypertension

The typical signs of clinical manifestations are dizziness, fullness in head, headache, ringing in the ears, insomnia, forgetfulness and others. This is kind of symptoms which is mixed deficiency with excess. According to Traditional Chinese medicine theory, high blood pressure involves a few visceral organs like liver, spleen and kidney. In addition, it is closely related to blood and many patients with hypertension belong to the combination of both deficiency and stasis.

Theory to get rid of high blood pressure

Chinese angelica works to tonify deficiency while removing blood stasis, which has a significant effect on primary hypertension, especially it is caused by hyperactivity of yang due to yin deficiency combined with blood stasis. The root cause for hypertension can attribute to the imbalance between blood supply and demand. It invigorates the circulation of blood and increase the blood supply, which improves blood flow, restores the balance, and cure hypertension eventually.

Benefits of Angelica extract

Study found that Angelica Sinensis extract can lower blood pressure significantly. It speeds up the microcirculation, lower blood viscosity, induce diuresis, regulate blood fat, and boost the immune system and so on. All the above-mentioned functions help to reduce the complications of high blood pressure and heart attack. It lowers blood pressure through receptor channel by the combination of lowering the activity of renin and angiotensin, blood lipid, and viscosity and so on.

Further study confirmed that the components that lower blood pressure are tannic acid, adenosine, taurine, and ferulic acid. Once again, this finding provides a theoretical basis for treatment of hypertension with angelica extract.

Evidence for Chinese angelica

Xiyuan Hospital of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine ever conducted a standard, double-blind, randomized, and controlled studies on 400 patients with stage II hypertension. The result had shown that total effective rate is 74% and syndrome effective rate is 82%.

It means Angelica Sinensis extract has the similar or superior efficiency than chemical medicine of nifedipine. And the good news is that no adverse reactions occurred, which is much safer even though Dong quai extract needs to be taken in a long period of time.