Chinese medicine-Bupleurum chinense

1. Medicinal parts: dried roots of Bupleurum chinense or Bupleurum stenophyllum of Umbelliferae.

2. Sexual taste: pungent, bitter and slightly cold.

3. Meridian tropism: liver, gallbladder and lung.

4. Efficacy: harmonizing exterior and interior, soothing liver and relieving depression, invigorating yang and relieving depression, clearing heat and stopping malaria.

5. Indications: used for common cold and fever, wind-cold and fever, chest pain, irregular menstruation, uterine prolapse and proctoptosis.

6. Usage and dosage: 3- 10g.

7. Taboo: Bupleurum chinense is forbidden or used with caution if the nature of Bupleurum chinense is ascending and dispersing, liver wind moves internally and liver yang is hyperactive.

8. Processing method

① Bupleurum root: remove impurities and residual stems, wash, fully moisten, cut into thick slices and dry.

(2) vinegar Bupleurum: slice clean Bupleurum, add a certain amount of rice vinegar, mix well, moisten until the vinegar is completely absorbed, heat it with slow fire, fry it dry, take it out and let it cool. Sift out the debris. 20kg of rice vinegar per 100kg of Bupleurum tablets.

③ Turtle blood Bupleurum: Take clean Bupleurum slices and mix them with tortoise blood and proper amount of water, which is slightly stuffy. After the juice is exhausted, fry it with slow fire, take it out and let it cool. Every 100kg of Bupleurum tablets, use 12.5kg of turtle blood.

9. Physiological characteristics: Bupleurum chinense is a herbaceous plant recorded in China Pharmacopoeia, and it is the dried root of Umbelliferae Bupleurum chinense or Bupleurum stenophyllum. According to different characters, they are called Bupleurum and Bupleurum respectively. It grows in sandy grassland, dune meadow and sunny slope sparse forest.

10. Origin: distributed in Northeast China, North China, Northwest China, East China, Hubei, Sichuan and other places.

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① southern Yunnan materia medica: "Bupleurum chinense can be used for sweating typhoid fever for four days: if it is used first, the yang syndrome will enter the yin meridian, so it is not suitable."

(2) Ben Feng Jingyuan: "Bupleurum chinense, children with fever, malaria, cold and heat, Xian Yi used it. If there is cold and heat after acne rash, or there is pain and heat under the ribs, it is used in exterior-penetrating drugs. Shaoyang does not survive the heat, and it will not be bitter to grind your teeth in the future. "