Dang Gui Wei - Chinese Angelica Tail【Net Wt: 100g】

NPN 80095491

【Macroscopic Features】
Branched root (Gui wei) is 0.3~1cm diameter, thick upper part and thin lower part, curved, with small number off rootlets. Soft and pliable texture; fractured surface is yellowish-white or pale yellowish-brown; cortex is thick with cracks and numerous brown spotted secretory cavities; xylem is relatively pale, cambium ring is yellowish-brown. The fractured surface of some rhizomes has pith and a hollow cavity at the center.

【Properties】Sweet, acrid; warm

【Channels (meridians) entered】liver, heart and spleen

【Functions】
It breaks blood and removes blood stasis, regulates menstruation and relieves pain, moistens intestines and relieves constipation. It is used for irregular menstruation, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, postpartum hematuria, abdominal pain due to deficiency and cold, rheumatic arthralgia, injuries from falls, carbuncles, ulcers, intestinal dryness and constipation.