Sweating and relieving the surface, promoting the lungs and calming asthma, and inducing diuresis. 1. It is used for cold and wind-cold and measles with poor penetration and itching. Ephedra is warm and pungent, can sweat the cold and relieve the surface, but also can disperse the wind through the rash. It can be used to treat the fever and cold caused by wind-cold, without sweating, etc. It is often used in conjunction with Gui Zhi, which has the effect of sweating and relieving the symptoms. Such as the treatment of measles through the hair is not smooth, coupled with coughing and shortness of breath symptoms, can be added in the Xin cool measles medicine discretionary ephedra, because the lung is the main skin and hair, this product can not only promote the lung, but also can be dispersed, can be collected through the measles, the effect of asthma. As for the treatment of rubella body itching, can be used with mint, cicadas and other drugs. 2. For cough and asthma. Ephedra can promote and smooth the lung qi and stop coughing and asthma, so the clinical often used to treat the external evil attack, lung qi due to unimpeded throat itching cough, sputum or coughing urgency, chest tightness, shortness of breath and so on. Such as cold cough and asthma, more with almonds, licorice with; external cold, internal phlegm, often with fine Xin, ginger, schizandra, half-summers, etc.; as for lung-heat cough and asthma, often with gypsum, almonds, licorice, etc.. 3. For wind, water and edema. Ephedra can not only sweat, but also diuretic, so it is suitable for edema with epilepsy, often used with Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Ginger and so on. This product is the herbaceous stem of ephedra, Ephedraceae, and the woodchuck ephedra or other ephedrine-containing ephedrine plants of the same genus. Taste and Meridian: Pungent, slightly bitter, warm. It enters the lung and bladder meridians. Prescription with the name of raw ephedra, net ephedra (raw, pungent dispersal effect is stronger), water-roasted ephedra (frying with water, pungent dispersal effect is moderate), honey-roasted ephedra (frying with honey, pungent dispersal effect is weakened, and has the effect of moistening the lungs) General dosage and usage five minutes to three coins, decoction. 1. Ephedra, a medicine, was first published in the "Classic". Since the Han Dynasty, "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" contains ephedra soup, later generations of doctors believe that ephedra is a sweating and relief of the surface, relieving cough and asthma of the important medicine. 2. The effect of this product is mainly dispersing and promoting the lung, such as with Gui Zhi to sweat away the surface, with almonds to stop coughing and asthma, with dry ginger to promote the lung to dissipate cold, with gypsum to promote the lung to drain heat, with epimedium in Ephedra, epiphyllum and fine Xin Tang to warm the meridians and publish, and with cinnamon in Yanghe Tang to warm the cold, promote the circulation of qi and blood. 3. To summarize, the clinical application of ephedra is mainly to take its efficacy in two aspects: propagation and dispersal. Example of formula: Ephedra Tang ("Treatise on Typhoid Fever"): ephedra, cinnamon sticks, almonds, licorice. Used for external wind-cold attack, malignant cold, no sweating, headache, body ache and other solid surface. San'ao Tang (《和局方剂》): ephedra, almonds, licorice. For cold and wind-cold, cough and asthma. Ephedra, Almonds, Licorice and Gypsum Soup ("Treatise on Typhoid Fever"): ephedra, almonds, licorice and gypsum. Used in treating congestion of internal heat, characterized by heat and thirst, wheezing and coughing, and flaring of the nose. Literature excerpts from the Classic: "Mainly used for upper air coughing, knotting up Qi, throat paralysis, spitting and sucking, and benefiting the joints. Bie Lu (《别录》): "Warms the channels and passes the veins, and stops annoying sweating. Ben Jing Shu Zhen: "and camp, through the Yang, diuretic, under the gas, gas, tonifying, for Gui Zhi six efficacy.