Category of medicinal properties: dispersing wind-cold medicine
Taste and attribution: pungent, slightly bitter, warm. Attributed to the lung and bladder meridians.
Functions and Indications: Sweating and dispersing cold, promoting the lungs and calming asthma, inducing diuresis and subduing swelling. Used for wind-cold cold, chest tightness, wheezing and coughing, wind and water swelling; bronchial asthma. Honey ephedra moistens the lung and relieves cough. Used for symptomatic relief, asthma and cough.
Use and dosage: 2-9g of ephedra.
Storage: in a dry and ventilated place, moisture-proof.
Clinical application:
1. Ephedra soup ("The Treatise on Typhoid Fever") for the treatment of sun disease, headache and fever, body ache and lumbago, pain in the bones and joints, bad wind, no sweating and wheezing: ephedra 10g (remove the nodes), cinnamon sticks 6g (peeled), licorice 3g (roasted), almonds 70 (peeled, pointed). On the 4 flavors, with 9 liters of water, the first boil ephedra, reduce 2 liters, remove the foam, and all the drugs, boiled 2.5 liters, remove the dregs, warm service 8, covered with micro-sweat, do not have to be dissected sip porridge. The formula ephedra disperses wind-cold.
2. Ephedra, almonds, licorice and gypsum soup ("Treatise on Typhoid Fever") treatment of solar disease after sweating, can not be more gui zhi soup, sweating and wheezing, without great fever: ephedra 12 g (remove the section), almonds, 50 (peeled, pointed), licorice 6 g (roasted), gypsum 25 g (crushed, cotton capsule). The above 4 flavors, with 7 liters of water, boil ephedra, reduce 2 liters, remove the foam on the Na all drugs, boiled 2 liters, remove the dregs, warm service 1 liter. The formula uses ephedra as the king, taking its ability to promote the lung and drain the evil heat.
3. Sagan Ephedra Soup ("The Essentials of the Golden Chamber") is used for the treatment of phlegm, cough and asthma. Sheng Gan 6g, ephedra 9g, ginger 9g, fine Xin 3g, Aster 6g, Hortensia 6g, jujube 3, Hanxia 9g, Fructus schisandrae chinensis 3g. decocted with water, one dose per day. The formula of ephedra combined with schizandra, Xuanzhong and astringent, open and close.