The roots of the Angelica are long and spindle-shaped, thick and fleshy - large specimens weighing sometimes as much as three pounds - and are beset with many long, descending rootlets. The stems are stout fluted, 4 to 6 feet high and hollow. The foliage is bold and pleasing, the leaves are on long stout, hollow footstalks, often 3 feet in length, reddish purple at the much dilated, clasping bases; the blades, of a bright green colour, are much cut into, being composed of numerous small leaflets, divided into three principal groups, each of which is again subdivided into three lesser groups. The edges of the leaflets are finely toothed or serrated. The flowers, small and numerous, yellowish or greenish in colour, are grouped into large, globular umbels. Fruits, 1/6 to a 1/4 inch in length when ripe, with membranous edges, flattened on one side and convex on the other, which bears three prominent ribs. Both the odour and taste of the fruits are pleasantly aromatic.

Carminative, stimulant, diaphoretic, stomachic, tonic, expectorant and antiseptic.

Plants for a Future
Angelica

8-methoxy-psoralen, alpha-amyrin, alpha-bisabolol, alpha-pinene, alpha-terpineol, beta-sitosterol, caffeic acid, chlorogenic acid, isoimperatorin, oxalic acid, psoralen, stigmasterol, umbelliferone (plant); adenosine, alpha-terpinene, angelicin, beta-eudesmol, borneol, caryophyllene, gama-terpinene, limonene, myrcene, p-cymene, terpinen-4-ol (root); bergapten, imperatorin, xanthotoxin (seed)

Good remedy for colds, coughs, pleurisy, wind, colic, rheumatism and diseases of the urinary organs, for intestinal problems (including indigestion).

It is not recommended for pregnant or lactating women.

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