The Pharmacognostical Studies on Tang-gwi

국산 당귀의 생약학적 연구

A report is given of microscopic study of the root Angelica gigas Nakai comparing with Ligusticum acutilobum S. et Z.(=Angelica acutiloba Kitagawa). The following characteristics are outstanding. 1. Angelica gigas Nakai is more tender and softer than Ligusticum acutilobum S. et Z. 2. Both Angelica gigas Nakai and Ligusticum acutilobum S. et Z. are alike in the form and arrangement of fundamental parenchyma in cortex and xylem. 3. No mechanical tissues are present but the substitute fibers in the Angelica gigas Nakai and Ligusticum acutilobum S. et Z. 4. The intercellular space are more numerous and larger in Angelica gigas Nakai than in Ligusticum acutilobum S. et Z. 5. Secretory tissue in Angelica gigas Nakai consists of numerous canals while in Ligusticum acutilobum S. et Z. very few.