Bupleurum has the effects of harmonizing exterior and interior, soothing the liver and promoting yang, and is often used for common cold and fever, mixed cold and heat, malaria, liver depression and qi stagnation, chest pain, rectocele, uterine prolapse, irregular menstruation and other symptoms.
When cooking porridge, a little Bupleurum root can be added, which can play a corresponding therapeutic role with other medicinal materials. Bupleurum can also make tea with hawthorn and angelica. Bupleurum can be added to stew or chicken. The dosage of antipyretic raw materials should be large, and the dosage of rising sun raw materials should be small; Shugan Jieyu should be decocted in vinegar, while steaming bones due to yin deficiency should be decocted in tortoise blood. Bupleurum is often used with Radix Puerariae and Notopterygii Rhizoma to treat colds. Bupleurum has a good antipyretic effect, and the evil is shaoyang, cold and heat. It is often used with Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi and Pinellia ternata (such as Xiaochaihu Decoction). For malaria, Bupleurum chinense can be used together with Tsaoko and Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride. Irregular menstruation or dysmenorrhea caused by stagnation of liver-qi can be combined with herbs such as Angelica, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Rhizoma Cyperi and Radix Curcumae.
The above is a concrete introduction to the eating methods of Bupleurum and Bupleurum! I believe that after reading the above contents, everyone will have a further understanding of how to eat these two kinds of ingredients with the same origin!