What are the effects of the traditional Chinese medicine Bupleurum?

Southern Bupleurum is mainly produced in Sichuan or Hubei in southern my country, while Northern Bupleurum is mainly grown in northern regions such as Liaoning or Gansu. Soft Bupleurum is the general name for northern and southern Bupleurum, a very good Chinese medicine with a softer texture and is generally curved, but it also has value. Next, let’s take a look at what the Chinese medicine soft Bupleurum is through some detailed and professional information.

Perennial herb, 25-50 cm tall. The taproot is extremely developed, oblong, slightly thickened, light reddish brown or orange-yellow brown, slightly glaucous, with a relatively smooth surface, a few short transverse protrusions, a relatively fine texture, and several stems branching out from the top of the root neck. The internodes at the base of the stem are very short, and there are occasionally sparse, membranous, dead petiole remnants at the nodes. The stem is slender, slightly zigzag or not obvious, with fine longitudinal grooves, often purple at the base, and often branched above the middle.

The leaves are small and thin and papery. The basal leaves often fall early, are oblanceolate, 5-8 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, with rounded or acute apex, with a small protruding tip, contracted into a long petiole below the middle, and 3-5 veins; the middle stem leaves are oblanceolate, with oblong or acute apex, with a small hard tip, and the base quickly contracts into a short petiole. Inflorescence small and numerous, 10-18 mm in diameter, slender peduncle; bracts absent or 1-2, needle-shaped, 2-5 mm long, 0.3-0.5 mm wide, with sharp apex and 1-3 veins; rays

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(9), very thin, 4-11 mm long; 5 bracteoles, linear, very small, close to the pedicel, 1-2 mm long, 0.2 mm wide, with sharp apex, 1-3 veins, shorter than the fruit stalk; umbels 2.5-4 mm in diameter, 6-9 flowers; pedicels slightly unequal, 1.5-2.8 mm long; flowers very small, 0.8-1.1 mm in diameter.

The above is the relevant information about the Chinese medicine Soft Bupleurum. Soft Bupleurum is generally light red or light reddish brown, and some are orange-yellow-brown, with a relatively smooth surface. According to professional medical statistics, among the famous Chinese medicine practitioners across the country, the most frequently used and best used herb is Soft Bupleurum.