Sexual taste, pungent meridian tropism, slightly bitter, warm in nature. Enter lung meridian and bladder meridian.
Indications: sweating, dispelling cold, dispersing lung qi and relieving asthma, diuresis and detumescence. Used for colds, chest tightness, asthma and cough, and feng shui edema; Bronchial asthma. Honey ephedra moistens lung and relieves cough, which is mostly used for relieving exterior syndrome, relieving asthma and relieving cough.
Sexual taste, sweet meridian, slightly bitter and flat. Spleen, lung and heart meridian.
ginseng
Indications: invigorating primordial qi, restoring pulse, resolving hard mass, invigorating spleen, benefiting lung, promoting fluid production and calming nerves. Can be used for asthenia, cold limbs, rapid pulse, anorexia due to spleen deficiency, asthma and cough due to lung deficiency, body fluid injury and thirst, thirst due to internal heat, chronic illness of palpitation and insomnia, impotence and cold uterus; Heart failure, cardiogenic shock
Usage and dosage: 3-9g, decocted in water; Wild ginseng is ground into powder and swallowed, 2g once, twice a day.
Be careful not to use it with Veratrum nigrum.
cinnamon twig
Sexual taste is sweet. Warm. Heart, lung and bladder meridians.
Efficacy: sweating, relieving exterior syndrome, warming channels and relieving pain, and helping yang to transform qi.
licorice
Sweet and flat in nature. Heart, lung, spleen and stomach meridians.
Functions mainly include invigorating spleen and qi, clearing away heat and toxic materials, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, relieving pain and harmonizing various drugs. Can be used for treating spleen and stomach weakness, listlessness, palpitation, shortness of breath, cough with excessive phlegm, abdominal distension, acute pain in limbs, carbuncle, swelling and sore, and relieving drug toxicity.
Usage and dosage: 1.5 ~ 9g.
Note that it should not be used with Beijing spurge, Daphne genkwa and Gansui.
astragalus
Sexual taste, warm meridian. Enter the lung meridian and spleen meridian.
Functions and indications: invigorating qi, consolidating exterior, promoting diuresis, expelling pus, healing sores and promoting granulation.
Can be used for treating asthenia due to qi deficiency, anorexia, loose stool, uncomfortable middle qi, persistent diarrhea, proctoptosis, metrorrhagia and hematochezia, spontaneous sweating due to exterior deficiency, edema due to qi deficiency, carbuncle swelling, chronic collapse, blood deficiency and flaccidity, and internal heat to quench thirst; Chronic nephritis proteinuria, diabetes.
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