Can pregnant women eat Angelica dahurica?

　　Angelica dahurica is the root of Angelica dahurica or Angelica dahurica of the Umbelliferae family. Hangbaizhi is cultivated in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hunan, Sichuan and other places. Qibaizhi is a tall perennial herb and is cultivated in Hebei, Henan and other places. Those planted in autumn should be harvested when the leaves wither in the following autumn; those planted in spring should be harvested during the cold dew of the same year. After digging out the roots, shake off the soil, remove the fibrous roots, wash, and dry in the sun or oven.

　　1. Angelica angelica is long cone-shaped, 10-20cm long and 2-2.5cm in diameter. The upper part is nearly square or quasi-square, with a gray-brown surface and numerous transverse lenticel-like protrusions, mostly arranged in four longitudinal rows, with depressed stem marks at the end. The texture is solid, heavy, white in cross-section, powdery, the skin is densely covered with brown oil spots, the formation ring is brown, nearly square, the aroma is strong, and the taste is pungent and slightly bitter.

　　2. The root of Qilidaizhi is conical, 7 to 24 cm long, 1.5 to 2 cm in diameter, with a grayish-yellow or yellowish-brown surface, scattered transverse lenticel-like protrusions, and root marks. It is hard in texture, gray-white in cross-section, powdery, with scattered brown oil spots on the skin, and is round in layers. It is brown, has a strong aroma, and is pungent and slightly bitter in taste.

　　The ones with single branches, strong stems, heavy weight, sufficient powderiness and strong fragrance are preferred.

　　Edible effect

　　Angelica dahurica is pungent in taste and warm in nature; it returns to the lung, stomach, and large intestine meridians; its fragrance rises and spreads;

　　It has the effects of dispelling wind and relieving surface, dispersing cold and relieving pain, removing dampness and clearing the orifices, reducing swelling and draining pus;

　　Cure mainly for wind and cold cold , headache, eyebrow bone pain, toothache, itchy eyes with tearing eyes, nasal congestion, rhinorrhea, persistent dampness and diarrhea, intestinal wind and hemorrhoids, red and leucorrhea, carbuncle and sore, itching and scabies, and poisonous snake bites.

　　Applicable people

　　It is forbidden to take this medicine for those with qi deficiency, blood heat, yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity.