In China, as a substitute species, A. acutiloba, is known as Chinese: 东当归; pinyin: dōngdāngguī.

(See #Etymology) The Japanese name, tōki (トウキ, 当帰), has a literally meaning like “recovering good health”.

acutiloba grows in the banks and valleys,[5] from Honshu (North of Shiga Prefecture) to Hokkaido.

iwatensis grows in high altitude, mountainous terrains and grasslands, distributed throughout temperate areas.

[5] The crop cultivated in Nara Prefecture has been known as Yamato tōki or Ōfuka-tōki (the latter after Ōfukachō in Gojō, Nara),[3] reputedly superior to the Hokkaido-grown Hokkai tōki, and though the latter has been classed as a subspecies in the past, it is assigned a senior category of variety: A. acutiloba grows to about 0.3-1 meter high.

A. acutiloba's flowers are perfect or hermaphroditic and actinomorphic, with distinct calyx and white corolla.

The inflorescences contain fifteen to forty-five pubescent rays, 1–10 cm in length, which surround about thirty small disk flowers.

The androecium contains five stamens, while the gynoecium contains two carpels fused into a single pistil with an inferior, glabrous ovary.

The externals of the roots are covered with horizontal protrusions, numerous scars of fine rootlets, and longitudinal wrinkles, which are about 1.5–3 cm in diameter.

[11] In some cases, the seeds of A. acutiloba are sown in the first winter and moved to their permanent position at the beginning of next spring for their best germination.

[9] The extract of A. acutiloba roots is used in traditional Chinese medicine and is considered a substitute for dang gui, Angelica sinensis.

In Kampo medicine, A. acutioloba roots are used to treat gynaecological diseases in the female reproductive system.

The root extract can be used in cosmetics and act as a moisturizer, which may help to prevent the aging of the skin.

Angelica acutiloba contains furocoumarins, which increase skin sensitivity to sunlight and may cause dermatitis.

According to a study, phthalides and furanocoumarins extracted from the A. acutiloba root can be utilized as a natural insecticide, and against larvae and adult Drosophila melanogaster.

In ancient times, a husband might leave the house if his wife was suffering from a gynecological disease.

Bencao Gangmu (本草綱目), written by Li Shizhen in the 17th century, provides an explanation of the original name of the plant.

Angelica root was a great medicine that could help to regulate women's blood flow, so it implied that her missing for her husband and she was ready to marry him.