Root of Chinese Angelica
Rhizoma Dryopteridis Crassirhizomae
Guan Zhong

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Minor cold; bitter

Part(s) used

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

1. to clear heat and toxic material. for preventing and treating pestilence and seasonal febrile diseases, such as influenza, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, mumps, measles, etc., also for viral pneumonia. 2. to cool the blood nad stop bleeding. for profuse uterine bleeding due to blood-heat, hematemesis, epistaxis, hemafacia, eruptive diseases, etc.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Antivirotic and bacteriostatic. 2. parasiticidal effect on hookworm, roundworm and whipworm, etc. in human, and its component filmarone, on tapeworm. 3. its decoction shortens the blood clotting time in rabbits. 4. its extract exerts an abortive effect.