| Ligusticum is a Chinese
herb that promotes circulation and regulates energy. Good for
post-natal abdominal pain, painful abscesses, and headaches due to colds.
The ligusticum roots and fruit are aromatic and stimulant, and have diuretic and
carminative action. In herbal medicine ligusticum is used for disorders of
the stomach and feverish attacks, especially for cases of colic and
flatulence in children, its qualities being similar to those of Angelica in
expelling flatulence, exciting perspiration and opening obstructions. The
raw leaves can be eaten as salad, or infused dry as a tea, used to be accounted
a good emmenagogue.
An infusion of the root was recommended by old writers for
gravel, jaundice and urinary troubles, and the cordial, sudorific nature of the
roots and seeds caused their use to be extolled in pestilential disorders
(parasites). In the opinion of Culpepper, the working of the seeds was more
powerful than that of the root; he tells us that an infusion 'being
dropped into the eyes taketh away their redness or dimness". Ligusticum is
highly recommended to drink the decoction of the herb for agues. The distilled
water is good for quinsy if the mouth and throat be gargled and washed
therewith. The decoction drunk three or four times a day is effectual in
pleurisy.
Several species of this umbelliferous genus are employed as domestic medicines.
The root of Ligusticum Sinense, under the name of Kao-Pau, is largely
used by the Chinese, and in the northwestern United States the large, aromatic
roots of Ligusticum Filicinum (OSHA Colorado cough-root) are used to a
considerable extent as stimulating expectorants.
Lisusticum is also known as:
Ligusticum Levisticum, Old English Lovage, Italian Lovage,
Cornish Lovage, Kao-Pau
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