Gui Zhi and ephedra although both can sweat, Gui Zhi Xin Gan Wen Xi. Gui Zhi contraindications: have fever, high fever, yin deficiency fire, blood heat paranoia is prohibited. Gui Zhi therapeutic effect: Gui Zhi taste pungent and sweet, warm, to the heart, lungs, bladder meridian Spicy line dispersal, body light floating; has the effect of dispersal of cold and relief of the surface, warming the meridians and veins, through the yang qi effect The main treatment of wind-cold symptoms, cold and damp paralysis, cold extremities, menstrual pain, menstrual closure, blood, chest paralysis, palpitation, phlegm drinking, urinary incontinence. Gui Zhi is warm and pungent, good at dispelling wind-cold, and can be used for treating colds, fever and malignant chills, regardless of whether there is sweating or no sweating. 2. If the body does not sweat in wind-cold syndrome, combining it with ephedra has the effect of promoting sweating. 3. If there is sweating in the body in the case of wind-cold symptom, combining with Paeoniae Alba has the effect of harmonizing Ying and Wei. 4. Gui Zhi can warm the meridians and channels, for cold-dampness rheumatism paralysis, it is often used together with Radix Pseudostellariae, Radix Qiangwu[5] and Radix Polygoni Multiflori. 5. For menstrual closure and dysmenorrhea caused by cold stagnation of qi and blood, it is often used together with angelica, peony and peach kernel. 6. Gui Zhi is warm in nature, good at promoting yang qi and transforming yin and cold. It is often used in conjunction with Poria and Poria to treat diseases caused by stagnation of water-dampness and formation of phlegm-drinking due to the obstruction of yang qi by yin and cold and the inability to transmit and disseminate the fluids. 7. If the bladder qi is out of order and urination is unfavorable, Gui Zhi is used to promote yang qi and help diuresis to promote urination, and is often used together with Poria, Ze Xie Diarrhea and so on (e.g. Wu Ling San). 8. Gui Zhi is the key medicine for the cases of wind-cold infection, cold and blood stagnation, and Yang not transforming Qi. Its sweating power is not as strong as that of ephedra, but its sweet taste and slow power do not hurt the disadvantages of Yang, so it can be applied to both deficiency and reality of wind-cold sensation and stomach. (1) the treatment of solar stroke, Yang floating and weak Yin, Yang floating, heat since the development of the Yin weak, sweat since the development of the stingy cold, Xie Xie evil wind, open and close the fever, nasal dry vomiting Gui Zhi Tang main: Gui Zhi three taels, peeled peony three taels Licorice two taels, sizzling ginger three taels, cut twelve jujubes, broken. The above five flavors, fine cut three flavors, with seven liters of water, micro-fire boil three liters, remove the dregs, suitable for cold and warm, serve a liter; service has been a moment, sip hot gruel more than a liter to help the medicine, warm cover to make a moment, tie tie tie tie tie tie all over the body slightly sweating like better. ("Typhoid Fever" Gui Zhi Tang) ② treatment of typhoid fever eight or nine days, wind-dampness fight, body pain and annoyance, can not turn from side to side, do not vomit, not thirsty, floating pulse is weak and astringent: Gui Zhi 200 grams (peeled), three (cannons, peeled, broken), 150 grams of ginger (cut), twelve jujubes (broken), 100 grams of licorice (sizzling). The above five flavors, with six liters of water, boiled two liters, remove the dregs, divided into warm three service. ("Treatise on Typhoid Fever" Gui Zhi and Zi Tang) ③ treatment of pain in the joints, body inibiosis, feet swollen, such as off, dizziness and shortness of breath, warmth and vomiting: Gui Zhi 200 grams, 150 grams of paeoniae lactiflora, 100 grams of licorice, 100 grams of ephedra, 250 grams of ginger, 250 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, 200 grams of Zhimu, 200 grams of antifungal, a Zi Zi (cannon). The above nine flavors, with seven liters of water, boiled two liters, warm seven, three times a day. ("The Golden Chamber" Gui Zhi Paeoniae Zhimu Tang) ④ treatment of plaque in the heart, all rebellious, heart pain: Gui Zhi, ginger 150 grams each, Citrus aurantium five. The above three flavors, with six liters of water, boiled to three liters, divided into three warm service. ("The Golden Chamber" Gui Zhi Ginger Hovenia Tang) ⑤ treatment of typhoid fever after sweating, the person under the umbilicus palpitations, want to be a running dolphin: Poria 250 grams, Gui Zhi 200 grams (peeled), licorice 100 grams (sizzling), fifteen jujubes (broken). The above four flavors, to Ganlan water a bucket, first boiled Poria, reduce two liters, Na all the drugs, boiled three liters, remove the dregs, take a liter of warm service, three services a day. ("Treatise on Typhoid Fever" Poria, Gui Zhi, Licorice and Jujube Soup) (6) treatment of blood paralysis yin and yang are micro, inches of the mouth off the micro, the ruler in the middle and small tightness, external evidence of the body is not benevolent, such as the wind paralysis: 150 grams of Astragalus, 150 grams of Paeonia lactiflora, 150 grams of cinnamon, 300 grams of ginger, twelve jujubes. The above five flavors, with six liters of water, boiled to take two liters, warm service seven, three times a day. (Astragalus Gui Zhi Wu Wu Tang)