ANGELICA SINENSIS

Angelica Sinensis

(Dong-Quay)

Pharmacy: Ange-s. Angelica sinensis. Dong-Quay. Dies-Urnbelliferous. N. 0. Umbelliferae. Tincture of the roots. K&Storical dose: Tincture and all potencies.

Clinical

• Acrocyaoosis
• Amenorrhea
• Anaphrodisia
• Erysipelas
• Leucorrhea
• Lumbago
• Premenstrual syndrome
• Thyroid problems
• Weight changes

Homeopathic

The clinical provings of Ange-s. seem to be rich in promise for the future, especially for female hormonal problems. Affinity for genital organs, especially female, locomotor, and the skin. Easily tired with backache. Tired on waking up.

According to Dr. Nguyen-van-Nghi, a sweet and sharp taste can be observed, along with action on the meridians, particularly the heart, liver, and spleen. It tones up the blood and causes it to circulate, moistens the dryness (lungs), regularizes the intestines, and harmonizes the blood and the energy (meridians). Drained feeling with headaches, lumbar aching, chest, and abdominal diseases.

Constipation and expulsion of pus. Tonic action on the organs. Effective for cases of hematuria and melaena.

Weight changes, regular loss of weight in obese hypothyroid types. Tendency to plumpness. Reduction in libido. Menses scanty with fainting feeling, breast congestion, diarrhea, and occasional vomiting. Joint pains, predominantly on the left side, especially in the hip and pelvis. Spontaneous hematomata. Vesicular eruption. Formation of hard nodular patches.

Mind

Difficulty in concentrating. Reading is difficult because he needs to move, to walk about. General restlessness. Lacks courage while being restless. State of euphoria, which is mixed with a state of indifference. Feels well, calm, a little tired. Feels more dynamic but more nervous.

Abdomen

Pain in the solar plexus with pulsations in the abdominal aorta. Flatulence. Attacks of colitis and prurigo.

Back

Pains in the scapula and left arm causing him to wake at night. Pain under the left scapula, in the left shoulder. Lumbar pains. Lumbago as after exertion. Spontaneous hematomata in series stretching all along the vertebral column and waist.

Breasts

Benign breast tumors, cysts of the breasts. Disappearance of a nodule in left-sided mastitis.

Chest

Pain in the middle of the sternum, sometimes spontaneous. Sternum pain, almost impossible to touch it.

Constitutions

Hydrogenoid, neuro-lymphatic type.

Female

Amenorrhea. Long intervals between menses. Premenstrual syndrome. Premenstrual swelling, breast congestion, and legs heavy. Menses scanty. Menopausal complaints. Discomfort, feeling sensation during menses with vomiting and frequent stools. Hot flushes and discomfort at night. Profuse leucorrhea, milky, irritating discharge. Intercourse uncomfortable, sometimes painful. Libido very irregular. Pain and congestion in the left ovary.

Food

Loss of appetite, worse after eating sweets, pastries, or sugar.

Head

Headache after meals, at the nape of the neck.

Heart

Palpitations, limbs cold, legs heavy.

Kidneys

Urination not very frequent. Urine very dark in color. Has to get up during the night to urinate once or twice.

Limbs

Acrocyanosis of the hands, legs, cheeks, and inside of the arms. Joint pains in the left shoulder and left hip. Strumous edema of the legs, worse in cold weather.

Lungs

Stifled sensation with need for air. Feeling of heat, respiration difficult; need for fresh air. Grasps for breath. Dyspnea with no apparent cause.

Male

Irregular libido with loss of sexual appetite. Sexually indifferent.

Modalities

Better in fresh air, a need for fresh air. Worse from movement. Worse from contact. Worse in the late afternoon.

Mouth

Pain and swelling of the gum where there is a bridge. Tongue covered with a white or yellow coating at the back and on the edges.

Neck

Cannot bear the collar of his shirt to be fastened.

Pelvis

Pain in the hip and left sacroiliac joint, appearing especially in the late afternoon. Pain in all the joints of the pelvis. Feeling of stretching of the pelvic joints as after giving birth.

Rectum

Diarrhea, worse after eating sweets, pastries, or sugar. Diarrhea after any meals. Tendency to periods of constipation, alternating with soft stools, diarrhea.

Skin

Vesicular, itching eruptions, located on the right knee. Itching patches on the left hip, stretching to the waist, back, and slightly on the right hip. Hardening below the skin on the left hip. Small hard patches on the outside of the right forearm. Loss of hair with scaly, scabby formations on the scalp. Erysipelas. Acrocyanosis. Strumous edema. Knotted erythema.

Sleep

Sleep after meals. Sleep not very good, irregular with sensation of heat, persistently disturbed. Sleep lasts only a short time.

Prescription

Radix-Angelicae-Sinensis, 3x in the morning, 7c in the evening. The menstrual cycle was restored and she had periods on 27th September, 25th October, 20th November, 21st December 1974, and then 22nd January 1975, 18th February, and 22nd March 1975. No more leucorrhea, regular, painless intercourse, no more swelling, regular stools.

Case (3)

Myriane F..., 26, came on 13th July 1974 with obesity and rare, irregular menses. Here is a pattern of her periods when taking Radix-Angelicae-Sinensis, 3x and 7c: 18th July, 30th August, 3rd September, 4th October, 14th November, 19th December, 24th January. She was 1.67m tall, weighing 65 kilos at 13/11/74 and 59 kilos at 24/2/75.

She is now very well. In fact, these three cases are only given as indications. A closer clinical and biological study is necessary in order to demonstrate its value. We must also point out that a greater dosage of 25 to 50 drops, two to three times a day, can be given in cases of benign breast tumors or secondary amenorrhea, especially after cessation of taking the birth control pill.

Relations

• Compare: (1) Aranea Diadema - Hydrogenoid tendency, faintness, menses with pains in the lumbar and sacral regions, periodicity and feeling of increase in size and weight of the upper limbs.
• (2) Aristolochia Clematitis - Affinity for the female genital organs. Menses scanty, irregular, joint pains, strumous edema.
• (3) Histamine hydrochloride - Thyroid type with pain in the left ovary, burning, cramping pains in the scrotum, joints, and muscles, burning, itching, red papules on small areas of the skin.
• (4) Mandragora Radix - Euphoria, alternating with depression, libido disturbed, menses early or late, leucorrhea and lumbar pains, herpes-type vesicles on the face.

References

Julian.