Chinese Thorawax Root

Chinese Thorawax Root
Name
Chinese Thorawax Root
Latin Pharmaceutical Name
Bupleuri Radix
Chinese Name
柴胡
Category
Roots and rhizomes

Chinese Thorawax RootMore Info

Production Regions
Primarily produced in Chinese provinces of Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi.
Macroscopic Features
Cylindrical or long conical shape, 6~15cm long, 0.3~0.8cm diameter. Root head enlarged, apex has remnants of 3~15 stem bases or short fibrous leaf base, base has branches. Externally dark brown or pale brown, with longitudinal wrinkles, lateral root scars and lenticels. Hard but pliable texture, difficult to break; fractured surface is flaky and fibrous, with a light brown cortex, yellowish-white woody portion. faintly aromatic odor; taste slightly bitter. Superior medicinal material is thick and long, and lacks remnants of rootlets.
Quality Requirements
Superior medicinal material is thick and long, and lacks remnants of rootlets.
Properties
Bitter; slightly cold.
Functions
Harmonizes the interior and exterior, courses the liver, resolves depression, outthrust the exterior, discharge heat, upbears yang, and raises the sunken. Apply to cold and pyrexia, spell of fever and chills, malaria, stagnation f liver and qi, gastric and costal swelling pain, anal prolapsed, uterine prolapse, irregular menses.
Origin
The dried root of Bupleurum chinense DC. (Apiaceae).

Chinese Thorawax RootHerbs in the formula

Turtle Shell Decocted Pill

Turtle Shell Decocted Pill

Action:Moves qi, invigorates blood, dispels dampness, dissolves phlegm, softens hardness, and disperses concretions.
Indication:Bie Jia Jian Wan is indicated for chronic malaria with masses below the costal region and abdominal masses. Long-lasting malaria causes masses to gather underneath the costal region. It is called chronic malaria with masses. Symptoms include: Masses underneath the costal region that stay firm when pushed, abdominal pain, weak muscles, decreased appetite, occasional cold or fever, and inhibited menses.
Gentian Liver-Draining Decoction

Gentian Liver-Draining Decoction

Action:Clears and drains excessive fire of the liver and gallbladder, and clears damp-heat in the liver channel.
Indication:1. Flaming up of excessive fire of the liver and gallbladder, which manifests as headache and red eyes, pain in the rib-side, bitter taste in the mouth, deafness, swelling of the ears, a red tongue with a yellow coating, and a forceful wiry, rapid pulse.
Center-Supplementing and Qi-Boosting Decoction

Center-Supplementing and Qi-Boosting Decoction

Action:Supplements the center and boosts qi; raises yang and lifts the sunken.
Indication:Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang is indicated for two patterns. The first pattern is deficient or sunken spleen qi with reduced food intake, general sluggish sensation, weak breathing, lack of desire to speak, sallow-yellow facial complexion, and loose unformed stool. The tongue is pale and the pulse is deficient. It is also used for rectal prolapse, uterine prolapse, chronic diarrhea, and flooding and spotting (beng lou). The second pattern is objective or subjective fever due to qi deficiency manifested by a feverish sensation, spontaneous sweating, thirst with a desire for hot drinks, shortness of breath, and lack of strength. The tongue is pale and the pulse is deficient, big, and weak.
Universal Relief Toxin-Removing Beverage

Universal Relief Toxin-Removing Beverage

Action:Clears heat, resolves toxins, scatters wind, and disperses swelling.
Indication:This formula is indicated for swollen-head infection (also referred to as massive head scourge). The symptoms are redness, swelling, and pain in the head and face, failure to open the eyes, red, swollen, and sore throat, aversion to cold with fever, thirst, a red tongue with a yellow coating, and a forceful rapid pulse.
Original Qi-Restoring and Blood-Moving Decoction

Original Qi-Restoring and Blood-Moving Decoction

Action:Invigorates blood and dispels stasis, soothes liver and unblocks the collaterals.
Indication:Fu Yuan Huo Xue Tang is indicated for injuries from falls, fractures, contusions, and strains, as well as, patterns of blood stasis marked by unbearable hypochondriac pain due to obstructive stasis.
Free Wanderer Powder

Free Wanderer Powder

Action:Soothes the liver and resolves constraint, nourishes blood and fortifies the spleen.
Indication:Xiao Yao San is indicated for the pattern of liver constraint, blood deficiency, and spleen weakness, characterized by rib-side pain, headache, dizziness, dry mouth, dry throat, mental fatigue, reduced food intake, menstrual irregularities, distending pain of the breasts, and a wiry, deficient pulse.
Toxin-Resolving Powder

Toxin-Resolving Powder

Action:Dissipates cold, removes dampness, boosts qi, and releases the exterior.
Indication:Bai Du San is indicated for the pattern of externally contracted wind-cold-dampness. The symptoms are strong aversion to cold, high fever, headache, neck stiffness and pain, body soreness and pain, absence of sweating, stuffy nose, harsh voice, cough with phlegm, pi, and distressed chest and diaphragm. The tongue is pale with a white coating, and the pulse is superficial and forceless upon pressing.
Bupleurum and Pueraria Muscle-Resolving Decoction

Bupleurum and Pueraria Muscle-Resolving Decoction

Action:Releases the flesh and clears heat.
Indication:Chai Ge Jie Ji Tang is indicated for externally contracted wind-cold that has become constrained and transforms into a heat pattern. The signs and symptoms include gradually reducing aversion to cold and increasing body heat, absence of sweat, headache, eye pain, dryness of the nose, vexation, insomnia, dry throat, impaired hearing, orbit pain, a thin yellow tongue coating, and a superficial, slightly surging pulse.
Discharge-Ceasing Decoction

Discharge-Ceasing Decoction

Action:Fortifies the spleen and soothes the liver, removes dampness, and arrests vaginal discharge.
Indication:Wan Dai Tang is designed to treat disorders of vaginal discharge caused by liver constraint and spleen deficiency. This pattern is marked by thin, clear-white vaginal discharge (similar to clear nasal discharge), a pale complexion, general sluggishness, and thin, unformed stool. The tongue is pale with a white coating and the pulse is moderate or soggy and weak.
Blood Stasis-Expelling Decoction

Blood Stasis-Expelling Decoction

Action:Invigorates blood, dissolves stasis, and moves qi to relieve pain.
Indication:Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang is indicated for blood stasis in the chest. Symptoms include chest pain, headache, and chronic stabbing pain at a fixed location, continual hiccups or choking when drinking water, nausea, internal heat, dizziness, severe palpitations, insomnia, dreaminess, impatience, irascibility, tidal fever at night, dark lips or eyes, a dark red tongue with ecchymosis or purple spots, and a choppy or wiry, tight pulse.
Bupleurum Correction Beverage

Bupleurum Correction Beverage

Action:Releases the exterior and disperses cold.
Indication:Zheng Chai Hu Yin is indicated for a mild pattern of externally contracted wind-cold. The symptoms are mild aversion to wind-cold, fever, absence of sweating, headache, general body pain, a thin and white tongue coating and a superficial pulse.
Frigid Extremities Powder

Frigid Extremities Powder

Action:Moves qi, resolves the constraint, soothes the liver, and rectifies the spleen.
Indication:1. Pattern of yang constraint and reversal counterflow cold of the limbs, marked by a lack of warmth in the extremities, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dysentery tenesmus, and a wiry pulse.
Minor Bupleurum Decoction

Minor Bupleurum Decoction

Action:Harmonizes the shaoyang.
Indication:1. Cold damage entering the shaoyang. The symptoms are alternating chills and fever, fullness and discomfort in the chest and rib-side, no desire to eat or drink, vexation and frequent vomiting, bitter taste in the mouth, dry throat, dizzy vision, a thin white tongue coating, and a wiry pulse.
Major Bupleurum Decoction

Major Bupleurum Decoction

Action:Harmonizes shaoyang and drains interior heat bind.
Indication:This formula treats a combined shaoyang-yangming pattern characterized by alternating chills and fever, fullness and discomfort in the chest and rib-side, frequent vomiting, constant vexation, epigastric pi and hardness or epigastric fullness and pain, constipation or diarrhea with fever, a yellow tongue coating, and a powerful wiry, rapid pulse.
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