Dong Dang Gui

Angelica acutiloba is native to Japan, and introduced to Korea, Manchuria. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine and a food. The roots are used in Jilin as a regional substitute for the traditional Chinese medicine 'dang gui' (Angelica sinensis). Dang Gui is a well-known Chinese herb that has been used in the treatment of female ailments for thousands of years.

Tang kui (Thai).

A. acutiloba occurs naturally at higher elevations in mountainous regions. Grow best in a deep moist fertile soil in dappled shade or full sun.

• Root - strongly aromatic taproot that can be 10-25 cm long and 1-2.5 cm wide, tuberous root short with a few thickened secondary roots.
• Stems - glabrous, striate, solid.
• Leaves - alternate, long-petiolate in lower part of stem, 1-2 ternately pinnate, deltoid in outline, 10-25 cm long, glabrous, leaf sheaths present, stipules absent; leaflets trifid, 5-10 cm × 1-2.5 cm, cuneate, truncate or rounded at base, ultimate segments lanceolate, long-acuminate, margin dentate, reticulate venation prominent.
• Flowers - inflorescence a compound many-flowered umbel, papillate, rays 30-40, 3-8 cm long, secondary rays (pedicels) 0.7-1.8 cm long; involucre consisting of a few filiform-linear bracts. Flowers with obsolete calys, petals unobtrusive white, ovary inferior, styles 2.
• Fruit - consisting of two 1-seeds mericarps, oblong, 4-5 mm long, slightly compressed, narrowed towards the base, mericarps with slender ribs, lateral ribs slightly winged, vittae 3-4 in the intervals, 4 on the commissure.

It propagated by seed. Seedlings are usually transplanted. The spacing in experimental plantings is 40 cm × 40 cm.

Two anticholinergic compounds (ligustilide and butylidenephthalide), seven analgesic compounds (falcarinol, falcarindiol and falcarinolone (polyacetylenes), and choline, scopoletin, umbelliferone and vanillic acid), three polyacetylenes, and many others.

• The root is traditionally used in Japan and China as a general tonic and prescribed in the treatment of dysmenorrhoea, phthisis and haemorrhage.
• The root is emmenagogue, oxytocic, sedative and tonic. It is used in the treatment of women's complaints and also eases dizziness, a remedy for anaemia, to alleviate pain during parturition and, in Indo-China, as a carminative and galactagogue. 

• Siapkan akar tanaman ganti cuci bersih dengan air mengalir.
• Keringkan di bawah sinar matahari atau dengan oven suhu 40 °C hingga kadar air 10%.
• Haluskan menggunakan blender hingga menjadi bubuk.
• Simpan pada wadah bersih dan kedap udara.