Angelica

Angelica stimulates the circulation. It also has anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties.

Young leaves can be made into a tea, the flavour resembling China tea. Drink last thing at night for reducing tension, good for nervous headaches, indigestion, anaemia, coughs and colds. The tea made from the root is soothing for olds and other bronchial symptoms made worse by damp, cold conditions.

Externally it is used in bath preparations for exhaustion and rheumatic pain. Crushed leaves freshen the air in a car and help prevent travel sickness.

American angelica can be used much as you would its European relatives, but its most common use in medicinal, for heartburn and flatulence.

Chinese angelica is a blood tonic used in Chinese herbal prescriptions.

 

Warning: Large doses first stimulate and then paralyse the central nervous system. The tea is not recommended for those suffering from diabetes. Wild angelica can also be used medicinally, though large doses have the effect of depressing the central nervous system.