Category of drugs: wind-cold dispelling drugs
Sexual taste and meridian tropism: pungent, slightly bitter and warm. Enter lung meridian and bladder meridian.
Indications: sweating, dispelling cold, dispersing lung qi, relieving asthma, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. Used for colds, chest tightness, asthma and cough, and feng shui edema; Bronchial asthma. Honey ephedra moistens lung and relieves cough. It is mainly used to relieve symptoms, asthma and cough.
Usage and dosage: 2 ~ 9g of roasted ephedra.
Storage: Store in a ventilated and dry place to prevent moisture.
Clinical application:
1. Mahuang decoction (treatise on febrile diseases) is used to treat headache, fever, body aches, lumbago, arthralgia, wind aversion and dyspnea without sweating: ephedra 10g (removing joints), cassia twig 6g (peeling), licorice root 3g (baking) and 70 almonds (peeling tips). Take 4 flavors, take 9 liters of water, first boil ephedra, reduce 2 liters, remove foam, take all the medicines, cook 2.5 liters, take 8 warm clothes except me, cover slightly like sweat, and don't sip porridge. Ephedra in the prescription diverges wind and cold.
2. Ephedra almond licorice paste soup (treatise on febrile diseases) can't be used to treat sweating due to sun disease. Sweating and panting without fever: Herba Ephedrae 12 g (removing knots), 50 almonds (peeling tips), 6 g licorice (fried) and 25g gypsum (crushed and wrapped in cotton). Take 4 flavors, boil ephedra in 7 liters of water, reduce 2 liters, remove foam, take various medicines, boil 2 liters, except me, take 1 to raise the temperature. The prescription takes ephedra as the monarch, and ephedra can spread the lung and eliminate evil spirits.
3. Shegan Mahuang Decoction (Synopsis of the Golden Chamber) is mainly used to treat excessive phlegm and cough and asthma. 6 grams of Belamcanda, 9 grams of Ephedra, 9 grams of ginger, 3 grams of Asari, 6 grams of Aster, 6 grams of Farfara, 3 grams of Jujube, 9 grams of Pinellia ternata and 3 grams of Schisandra chinensis. Decoct with water, one dose a day. Ephedra and Schisandra chinensis are used in prescription, and there is convergence and opening and closing in propaganda.