Everyone is familiar with the traditional Chinese medicine Bupleurum, which has the effects of relieving superficial symptoms and reducing fever, soothing the liver and relieving stagnation, and raising yang and relieving depression.
As for the traditional Chinese medicine Yin Bupleurum, many people encounter it occasionally. Is it the same? What if it's different? Does it have similar effects to Bupleurum?
We will focus on Yin Bupleurum.
Yin Bupleurum comes from "Compendium of Materia Medica" and is the root of the herbaceous plant of the Caryophyllaceae family. Mainly produced in Shaanxi, Gansu, Inner Mongolia and other places. Dig it after autumn and use it as medicine. For raw use.
Yin Bupleurum is sweet, slightly bitter and slightly cold. Returns to kidney and liver meridians. It has the effect of clearing away heat from deficiency and removing malnutrition heat.
Judging from this effect, the two types of Bupleurum are completely different things. Apart from their names, there is no obvious contrast.
When we use Yin Bupleurum, we can start from its efficacy. The first is the function of clearing away heat from deficiency, which can be used in cases of yin deficiency and fever.
This Yin Bupleurum is slightly cold, not the kind of severe cold, so it is not easy to hurt the spleen and stomach. It tastes slightly bitter but not dry, and will not harm the yin fluid of the human body.
It is really a good product for clinical treatment of deficiency heat. In particular, Yin Bupleurum is specially designed to reduce deficiency heat and is a specialized medicine for treating various deficiency heat syndromes.
It is used to treat liver and kidney yin deficiency, with symptoms such as bone steaming, hot flashes, and night sweats. It is often used together with yin-tonifying drugs such as rehmannia glutinosa, turtle shell, and rehmannia glutinosa or other drugs for reducing deficiency and fever.
For example, Qinggu Powder in "Principles of Syndrome and Treatment".
To treat low-grade fever that persists in the late stage of febrile disease, it is often used together with other yin-tonifying drugs or drugs for reducing deficiency and heat.
For example, Yinjia Powder in "Warm Syndrome Zhigui", Yin Bupleurum and Turtle Armor are used together. Secondly, it is also specialized in treating malnutrition and fever in children.
Treatment of malnutrition, fever, skin weakness, indigestion, abdominal enlargement, irregular stools, hair loss, or occasional abdominal pain caused by stagnant diet or long-term accumulation of intestinal worms, damage to the spleen and stomach, etc. , should be used together with spleen-invigorating and qi-enhancing drugs and anthelmintic drugs such as Atractylodes macrocephala, Shijunzi, Wucai.
For example, Bupleurum Qinggan Powder in "Yi Zong Jin Jian".
Modern chemical composition and pharmacological research shows that Silver Bupleurum contains steroids, volatile oils, flavonoids and α-sitosterol, β-sitosterol, silver Bupleurum and other ingredients.
The water decoction and alcohol precipitation have antipyretic effects, and the effect increases with the increase of growth years.
The same species has the effect of lowering serum cholesterol.
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