ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces several representative prescriptions and their major clinical applications. Bupleuri radix was first recorded in Shen-Nong’s Herbal, the earliest professional work describing Chinese materia medica. It includes Bupleurum root and covers the root’s property, flavor, effects, and clinical applications as follows: Property, Flavor, and Channel Tropism: Bitter and pungent flavor, slightly cold property, and acting on the lung, spleen, liver and gallbladder channels. When using the recipe/prescription as the principal drug in the treatment of chronic active hepatitis, one dose a day is given; the shortest efficacious time is within 2 months, the longest is 3 years. When using the modified recipe to treat 253 cases of anicteric hepatitis, the whole effective rate was 68.8%. There were 36 cases whose liver function became normal, while 136 cases improved.
