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Starwest Herbal Fluid Extracts are convenient to use, an excellent alternative to herb tea or capsules. Made by a cold process method that extracts the maximum amount of vitamins, minerals, and active constituents of the herb.

Our extracts have a herb strength of 1 to 1 and a 30% alcohol content; the fresh extracts are a 1 to 2 ratio with a 50% alcohol content.

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The 1997 Commission E on Phytotherapy and Herbal Substances of the German Federal Institute for Drugs recommends Angelica root for 'Loss of appetite, peptic discomforts such as mild spasms of the gastrointestinal tract, feeling of fullness, flatulence.

'Side Effects: The furanocoumarins present in angelica root sensitize the skin to light. Subsequent exposure to UV radiation can lead to inflammation of the skin. During treatment with the drug or its preparations, prolonged sun-bathing and exposure to intense UV radiation should be avoided.'

'Daily dosage: 4.5 g of drug; 1.5 - 3 g fluidextract (1:1); 1.5 g tincture (1:5); equivalent preparations; 10 - 20 drops of essential oil. Actions: Antispasmodic; Cholagogue; Stimulates the secretion of gastric juices.'

Angelica root is also used as an expectorant for coughs and bronchitis.

Its essential oil relieves intestinal colic and flatulence.

Grieve's Classic 'A Modern Herbal': 'Angelica is largely used in the grocery trade, as well as for medicine, and is a popular flavouring for confectionery and liqueurs. The appreciation of its unique flavour was established in ancient times when saccharin matter was extremely rare. The use of the sweetmeat may probably have originated from the belief that the plant possessed the power of averting or expelling pestilence.'

'An Oil of Angelica, which is very expensive, was prepared in Germany some years ago: it is obtained from the seeds by distillation with steam, the vapour being condensed and the oil separated by gravity. One hundred kilograms of Angelica seeds yield one kilolitre of oil, and the fresh leaves a little less, the roots yielding only 0.15 to 0.3 kilograms. Like the seeds themselves, the oil is used for flavouring. Besides being employed as a flavouring for beverages and medicinally, Angelica seeds are also used to a limited extent in perfumery.'

'Medicinal Action and Uses: The root stalks, leaves and fruit possess carminative, stimulant, diaphoretic, stomachic, tonic and expectorant properties, which are strongest in the fruit, though the whole plant has the same virtues.'

'Angelica is a good remedy for colds, coughs, pleurisy, wind, colic, rheumatism and diseases of the urinary organs, though it should not be given to patients who have a tendency towards diabetes, as it causes an increase of sugar in the urine.'

'It is generally used as a stimulating expectorant, combined with other expectorants the action of which is facilitated, and to a large extent diffused, through the whole of the pulmonary region.'

'It is a useful agent for feverish conditions, acting as a diaphoretic.'

'An infusion may be made by pouring a pint of boiling water on an ounce of the bruised root, and two tablespoonsful of this should be given three or four times a day, or the powdered root administered in doses of 1O to 30 grains.'

'The infusion will relieve flatulence, and is also of use as a stimulating bronchial tonic, and as an emmenagogue. It is used much on the Continent for indigestion, general debility and chronic bronchitis. For external use, the fresh leaves of the plant are crushed and applied as poultices in lung and chest diseases.'

King's 1898 Dispensatory: 'Diuretic, stimulant, tonic, and emetic. It has been applied as a fomentation in tumefactions and swellings, and given internally in enteric fever and other typhoid states, chronic rheumatic complaints, gout, and malarial intermittents.'

'As a stimulant to the respiratory mucous surfaces it has been serviceable in chronic bronchitis. The dose of the infusion is from ½ to 1 wineglassful; of the powdered root, 5 to 30 grains; of the powdered seeds, 5 to 30 grains.'