Bupleurum Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Bupleurum (Bupleurum chinense), known in China as Chai Hu or Chinese thorowax, is a slender perennial of the carrot family, Apiaceae, native to the dry hillsides, grasslands, and roadsides of northern China, from Hebei and Shanxi to Gansu and Inner Mongolia, and to Korea and Mongolia. It grows 50 to 85 centimeters with branching, zigzag stems and long, narrow, undivided, parallel-veined leaves that look more like grass than the ferny foliage of its relatives. In late summer it carries small, loose umbels of tiny yellow flowers followed by oval ribbed fruits. The slender taproot is dark brown outside, pale and fibrous within, and faintly aromatic. We extract the dried root.