Special effects of Bupleurum chinense

The Chinese medicinal herb Bupleurum is also called Goldenrod. Bupleurum is the wolfgrass or root of the green plant Goldenrod of the Asteraceae family. Bupleurum is also known as wild yellow chrysanthemum, mountain half-branch incense, golden bull, red flower asarum, red flower one-branch incense, etc. Xiao Chaihu tastes slightly bitter and produces coldness. It is the main medicine for Shaoyang meridians and is used to generate Yang and reach the surface. Bupleurum is slightly cold. So what are the functions and effects of Xiao Chaihu?

1. The main effects of Xiao Chaihu are to harmonize Shaoyang, soothe the liver and stomach, generate yang and lift the sunken. It is used to treat alternating heat and cold, chest fullness and flank pain, bitter taste in the mouth, bad breath, deafness, headache, dizziness, dengue fever, diarrhea, rectal prolapse, irregular menstruation, uterine prolapse, and heat entering the blood chamber.

2. Immune function: Xiao Chaihu Decoction has hormone regulating function, can inhibit cell proliferation and induce abnormal proliferation cell necrosis, and can significantly shrink the disordered endometrium of rats with endometriosis.

3. Anti-infection effect: Xiao Chaihu has growth hormone-like and non-growth hormone-like anti-inflammatory effects. It can inhibit the chemotaxis of neutrophils, stabilize the cytoplasm and lysosomal membranes, inhibit the release of hydrolases and inhibit the decomposition of leukotrienes by macrophages, thereby alleviating the immune damage of the liver.

4. Anti-liver fibrosis effect: Liver fibrosis is the inevitable stage in the development of chronic hepatitis to cirrhosis. It is believed that the whole process of liver fibrosis depends on the balance of collagen production, accumulation, decomposition and absorption.

5. It has stable and reliable antipyretic and fever-reducing effects, and it can calm people and relieve pain. It can eliminate chest tightness, shortness of breath, and pain, and relieve depression and regulate menstruation.

6. Antibacterial, has inhibitory effect on tuberculosis, anti-liver damage effect, antiviral treatment, has obvious inhibitory effect on cold virus, and has inhibitory effect on somatic cell mutation caused by type 1 polio virus infection.