It is my pleasure to answer this question. Ephedra is an important drug for relieving fever and symptoms, which belongs to the lung meridian and bladder meridian, and its effect is mainly to relieve symptoms by sweating, promoting the lungs to calm asthma, and relieving water retention and swelling, and it is the main treatment for this disease in the clinic:

Firstly, it is the wind-cold cold, which leads to fever, chills, no sweating, headache, and pain all over the body, and so on, and we commonly use ephedra in the famous Ephedra Soup to treat this type of disease. treatment of this type of disease.

The second is that it can promote the lungs and calm asthma, for some pneumonia and asthma, can be combined with almonds, gypsum, like the commonly used Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang, it has the efficacy of pungent and cool cathartic, clearing the lungs and calming asthma.

The third is that it and gui zhi, atractylodes macrocephala, it for sweating and relief of the surface, at the same time dispersing cold and dampness, for some edema, especially for some wind and water, there is a certain sweating and relief of the surface, dampness effect.

Fourth, it is combined with the epimedium, fine Xin, we commonly used like epimedium, fine Xin Tang, mainly to treat this kind of yang deficiency of the patient, that is, the body is yang deficiency, and at the same time combined with the wind-cold, resulting in a series of symptoms, such as runny nose, tearing, coughing and so on a series of wind-cold cold symptoms, we can use the epimedium, fine Xin Tang.