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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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