The bupleurum is a perennial herb that grows to about 1 meter in height and usually found in the wild in patches along the sunny sides of sedge thickets.The Bupleurum is characterized by simple stem hugging leaves that grow alternately from the stem. Bupleurum leaves are broad, lanceolate in shape with gradually tapering base.

Bupleurum bears small green to yellow flowers in axillary position and develop in umbrellate inflorencenses on the plant body.The flowers turn into Bupleurum fruit that is oblong or ellipsoid in shape slightly laterally compressed and has 5 ribs. The seeds are plane.Bupleurum has long been used in Chinese medicine which is among the 'harmony herb".

Bupleurum chinense contains saikosapoins (saikosapoins a, b, c, d), sterols, volatile oils (bupleurol, eugenol, etc.), fatty acids (oleic acid, linolenic acid, palmitic acid, stearic acid, etc.) and polysaccharides.

Bupleurum chinense contains essential oils (eugenol, hexanoic acid, r-undecanoic lactone and p-methoxybenzophenone), saikosaponin (saikosaponin A), so it can relieve fever caused by typhoid, paratyphoid vaccine, Escherichia coli, fermented milk, yeast and so on, so Bupleurum chinense has the effect of alleviating cold and fever.

1.Nourishing the yin and moisten the lungs, strengthen the stomach.

2.Promote the production of body fluids, clearing heat in the heart and relieve irritability and sedative and boost sleeping,

3.Promotion langerhans cell function restores, increasing liver glycogen, reduces the function of blood sugar.

4.It is also beneficial to diabetes merge heart disease.