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What are the ingredients and effects of Mahuang Decoction?
Mahuang Decoction consists of 9 grams of Herba Ephedrae (removing knots), 6 grams of Ramulus Cinnamomi (peeled), 6 grams of almond (peeled tip) and 3 grams of licorice (baked).

Efficacy: sweating and relieving exterior syndrome, dispersing lung and relieving asthma. Indications are exogenous wind-cold exterior syndrome. Aversion to cold and fever, headache, dyspnea and anhidrosis, thin and white tongue coating and tight pulse. Ephedra pilose antler has a mild effect and is suitable for the elderly, children and the debilitated. The effect of honey, ephedra and pilose antler is more mild, and it is suitable for the elderly, children and patients with physical weakness who have solved their symptoms but have not recovered from asthma and cough.

If you have acute dyspnea, chest tightness, cough with excessive phlegm, and the exterior and interior are different, remove Guizhi and add Perilla and Pinellia to relieve phlegm, cough and asthma; For patients with severe nasal congestion and runny nose, Fructus Xanthii and Flos Magnoliae should be added to clear the nasal orifices; For damp arthralgia, Rhizoma Atractylodis and Coicis Semen are added to dispel wind and remove dampness; Gypsum Fibrosum and Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi are added to clear away heat for patients with internal heat, irritability and dry mouth.

Extended data

This recipe is a serious agent of spicy warmth and sweating. Therefore, Treatise on Febrile Diseases prohibits the symptoms of "sores", "stranguria", "bleeding" and "bleeding", as well as the symptoms of exogenous diseases such as superficial deficiency, spontaneous sweating, blood deficiency pulse and palpitation.

This prescription is the basic prescription for treating exogenous wind-cold exterior syndrome. Clinical application takes aversion to cold and fever, dyspnea and anhidrosis, and tight pulse as the key points of syndrome differentiation. Mahuang decoction has less medicinal flavor, but it is sweaty, so it is not advisable to take it in excess, otherwise excessive sweating will harm people's health.

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