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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 6 Progress Chuanxiong volatile oil [Keywords:] Chuanxiong volatile oil chemical extraction of clinical pharmacology study of Medicine Chuanxiong Ligusticum chuanxiong Hort. To Umbelliferae Ligusticum plant. The dry roots of one of China’s traditional Chinese medicine has been called ‘the blood of the gas medicine’, with the blood circulation of qi, Qufeng analgesic effect. Volatile oil is its major active ingredient. In recent years, with the constant improvement of analytical tools for the study Chuanxiong volatile oil continued to deepen. This paper from the chemical, extraction, processing agents, pharmacology and clinical aspects of five Chuanxiong volatile oil situation, and so an overview of the study. A chemical research 1.1 The origin of Chuanxiong medicine The ancient herbal medicine Ligusticum Chuanxiong dome called the Tang dynasty and before specific calendar Yang Xiong-Qiong (Anhui and county), Sichuan (Sichuan), Qin Chuan (Gansu Tianshui) 3 origin. With the constant introduction, the history of emerged Chuanxiong (Sichuan), West Gung (Gansu), ask Gung (also tea Gung, origin Jiangxi), Taiwan Gung (Zhejiang), wide Gung (Guangdong), cloud Gung (Yunnan), but are produced in Sichuan Chuanxiong the best [1]. Fu Ligusticum Ligusticum chuanxiong Hort.CV Fuxiong as a variant of Chuanxiong [2 ~ 4]. Qing Medical case will Chuanxiong, ask Gung indiscriminate use of [5]. Zhao Xuemin [4], Su Song [6], Ren-Shan et al [7] have different effects on their records. The origin is relatively confined to Sichuan Chuanxiong. Japan’s ‘Pharmacopoeia’ [8] of the ‘Chuanxiong’ to Umbelliferae (Cnidium of officinale Makino) dry roots. Such Yanbian in Jilin Province in Northeast China had the introduction, literature [9] commonly known as East Chuanxiong. Zhongfeng Lin et al [10] the use of gas - mass spectrometry of different origin and species of Chuanxiong volatile oil obtained by steam distillation of the ingredients have been studied and fou