Pinyin Name: Dang Gui Wei
English Name: Chinese Angelica, Dong Quai
Properties: sweet, acrid, warm
Channels Entered: Heart, Liver, Spleen

• Blood deficiency
• Blood and Qi deficiencies
  
• Spleen and Heart deficiencies
  
• Blood deficiency with deficiency-heat symptoms
  

• Amenorrhea due to blood deficiency and stagnation
• Amenorrhea or irregular menustration because of cold and deficiency
• Dysmenorrhea due to cold and deficiency
• Pre-,menstrual syndrome
• Early menustration, bloating during menustration, irritability from heat and qi stagnation
• General menustration disorders with fatigue and weakness due to qi and blood deficiencies
• Menopausal symptoms due to yin deficiency with heat

• Abdominal pain during pregnancy
• Pain and diarrhea during pregnancy
• Restless fetus, lower back soreness, abdominal pain and breech presentation of the fetus
• Postpartum, spontaneous sweating, fever, shortness of breath, back and leg pain accompanies by an inability to turn from side to side
• Postpartum bleeding, lower abdominal coldness and pain caused by blood deficiency with cold

• Traumatic injuries of the thoracic cavity
• Bruises, swelling and redness from traumatic injuries
• Broken or fractured bones

• Numbness due to blood deficiency
• Coldness of the extremities, back and/or buttocks due to blood and yang deficiencies
• Bi zheng (painful obstruction syndrome), painful points, and/or numbness due to ying (nutritive) and wei (defensive) deficiencies
• Soreness and weakness of lower back and knees due to qi, blood, Liver and Kidney deficiencies

• Slow-healing sores due to qi and blood deficiencies
• Toxic ulcers with pus
• Redness, swelling and burning toxic sores
• Ulcerated sores with redness, swelling and pain
• Chronic non-healing ulcerated sores caused by qi and blood deficiencies

• Constipation due to blood deficiency

• Cough, dyspnea, shortness of breath and profuse sputum
• Coughing during the night, dyspnea, profuse salty-tasting sputum caused by Kidney and Lung yin deficiencies

• Use Dang Gui with caution for patients with abdominal distention, Spleen deficiency or those with loose stools or diarrhea
  
• Dang Gui is contraindicated in excess conditions or for patients with yin-deficient heat signs