Dang Gui, 100 Capsules

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Tonifies the Blood and regulates the menses

• Blood Deficiency, especially when affecting the Heart and Liver, with pale, ashen complexion, lusterless nails, tinnitus, blurred vision, and palpitations
• Blood Deficiency associated irregular menstruation, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea

Invigorates and harmonizes the Blood and disperses Cold (stops pain due to Blood Stasis)         

• Blood Stasis causing abdominal pain and carbuncles and pain due to Blood Stasis from traumatic injury, especially when accompanied by Deficiency Cold
• Postpartum menstruation
• Pregnancy (use with caution)
• Blood Deficiency with chronic Wind-Damp-Bi

Moistens the Intestines and unblocks the bowels          

• Dry Intestines due to Blood Deficiency

Reduces swelling, expels pus, generates flesh and alleviates pain   

• Sores and abscess (Chuang Yung), internally and topically

Stops coughing and treats dyspnea            

• Used adjunctively for coughing

The sweetness of Angelicae sinensis Radix (dang gui) tonifies and moistens, its acrid flavor disperses, its bitterness drains, and its warmth unblocks. These properties make it the most appropriate herb for harmonizing the blood, which means that it both invigorates and tonifies the blood, and is suitable for all blood patterns involving stasis, deficiency, dryness, or cold. When the blood is sufficient and moves harmoniously, the qi will also circulate properly; the Grand Materia Medica therefore calls this an herb "for the qi within the blood." Proper movement of both qi and blood eliminates pain, expels wind, restores normal menstrual flow, assists healing, and moistens dryness. The type of dryness it particularly addresses is that in the intestines, causing constipation, as noted in the Essentials of the Materia Medica, which says that it "moistens dryness and lubricates the Intestines." Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica.