Macroscopical characters of the medicinal species of Bupleurum and their distribution in China / Sheng-Li Pan and Yun Kang -- Microscopical characters of the medicinal species of Bupleurum in China / Sheng-Li Pan -- Chromosomes of Bupleurum l. especially for the classification and cross-breeding of B. falcatum L. sensu lato / Shigeki Ohta ... [et al.] -- Cultivation of Bupleurum falcatum in Japan / Osamu Iida -- Distribution of saikosaponins of Bupleurum falcatum and variation of its contents in plant organs by environmental factors / Nak-Sul Seong, Hae-Gon Chung and Kwan-Su Kim -- Main chemical constituents of Bupleurum genus / Sheng-Li Pan -- The chemistry and biological activity of the genus Bupleurum in Spain / Alejandro F. Barrero ... [et al.] -- The chemistry and biological activity of the genus Bupleurum in Italy / Luisa Pistelli --

The pharmacological activity of Chinese "chaihu": the root of Bupleurum species / Xiao-Min Du, Hui Xie and Yun Kang -- Pharmacological activity of saikosaponins / Byung-Zun Ahn and Dai-Eun Sok -- Mitogenic substances of Bupleuri radix / Naohito Ohno and Toshiro Yadomae -- Clinical applications of prescriptions containing Bupleurum root / Bai-Can Yang and Jun Wang -- Anti-hepatofibrotic effect of xiao-chaihu-tang (sho-saiko-to) / Ichiro Shimizu -- Preventive effects of sho-saiko-to against septic shock symptoms / Shuhei Sakaguchi -- Patents containing Bupleurum.