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Botanical Name:
Angelica glauca Edgw
Chorak consists of dried mature root and root stock of
Angelica glauca Edgw, Family Apiaceae
Common Name(s) in English & Indian Languages
Sanskrit: Taskarah, Ksemakah
Bengali: Chorak
English: Smooth Angelica
Guajarati: Chorak
Hindi: Choraa, Gandrayan, Rikha Choraa
Kannada: Choraka
Malayalam: Choraka Pullu
Marathi: Corak
Punjabi: Choraa, Churaa
Telugu: Gaddi Davanamu
Botanical description:
Angelica is a glabrous aromatic biennial herb, up to 1.5 m
tall, with greenish white globe shaped compound umbels. Stem
purple tinge and are upright, ridged and hollow. Leaves are
bright green with the lower leaves large and tri-pinnate and
sharply toothed. The upper leaves are small and pinnate.
Flowers are sweetly scented. Root is fibrous gray and hard.
Parts used:
Dried roots & root stalks
Major chemical constituents:
Oxypeucedanin, 3-butylidene phthalide, 3-butylidene
dihydrophthalide
[(E-and (Z)-ligustilide] and dimers of
butyl phthalides [angiolide, angelicolide]
Therapeutic uses:
• Epilepsy (Apasmara)
• Asthma (Svasa)
• Hiccup (Hikka)
• Fever (Jvara)
• Itching (Kandu)
• Urticaria (Kotha)
• Diseases of skin (Kustha)
• Mania (Unmada)
• Ulcer (Vrana)
• carbuncle (Pitika)
• Poison (Visaroga)
• Vitiation of Blood and its components (Raktadosa)
• Digestive impairment (Agnimandya)
• Headache (Sirah Sula)
• Coryza (Pratisyaya)
• Diseases of children (Balaroga)
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