It has the effects of sweating, relieving exterior syndrome, relieving cough and asthma, inducing diuresis and reducing swelling. It can relax muscles and tendons, relieve exterior syndrome, make patients sweat, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough, nourish yin and astringe lung, transport and eliminate dampness. Clinically, Herba Ephedrae is often used for common cold, cough and asthma, rheumatism, carbuncle and swelling, expectoration and other diseases. "Materia Medica Justice" said: "Ephedra is light and clear, and it is the first medicine for treating influenza. Although it is said to relieve the symptoms, it is actually to open the lungs. Although it is said to drive away the cold, it is actually to drive away evil spirits. The cold is solid and scattered outside. Even if it is warm, it is good to communicate. " Ephedra has been used as medicine for 3800 years, and it is listed as a national medicine in Shennong Materia Medica Classic, which is a veritable originator of traditional Chinese medicine.
In clinic, Herba Ephedrae and Ramulus Cinnamomi should be used together. If stagnation is used to dredge collaterals and stagnation is used to calm yin, the effect of sweating and relieving exterior syndrome can be enhanced.
Ephedra and almond are very effective in using each other, publicizing the cause of disease, dispersing lung and relieving asthma. Herba Ephedrae with Atractylodis Macrocephalae and Ramulus Cinnamomi can relieve exterior syndrome and dispel cold and dampness. Ephedra and gypsum are compatible, pungent, cool, cathartic, clearing lung-heat and relieving asthma. Herba Ephedrae, Rhizoma Zingiberis Preparata and Cortex Cinnamomi can warm yang and detoxify, and treat vulvar gangrene.
Used for exogenous wind-cold exterior syndrome
Ephedra pungent warm into the lungs, pungent can be divergent, warm can dispel cold; The lung governs the fur, and when it enters the lung meridian, it can spread out in the cold. Symptoms include fever, aversion to cold, anhidrosis, headache, cough and asthma, thin and white tongue coating and tight pulse. Ephedra is often combined with cassia twig, almond, licorice, ginger and jujube, such as Mahuang Decoction in Treatise on Febrile Diseases; If you have fever, no sweat, strong headache, and unfavorable lateral rotation, you can use Ephedra with Radix Puerariae, Ramulus Cinnamomi, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Ginger and Jujube, such as Radix Puerariae Decoction from Treatise on Febrile Diseases.
Therapeutic water beverage
Ephedra enters the lungs, and the lungs dominate the declaration and descending, and the waterways are connected. If the metabolism of water and liquid is abnormal, it turns into phlegm and is blocked in the lungs, then cough with excessive phlegm, asthma with rest, eye and face edema or diarrhea, or retching. It is often combined with cassia twig, asarum herb, dried ginger and Pinellia tuber to warm the lung, such as Xiaoqinglong Decoction from Treatise on Febrile Diseases; If the water stops inside, and the heart throbs in the upper reaches, Ephedra and Pinellia can be divided into pills, such as Pinellia Ephedra Pills in Synopsis of the Golden Chamber.
Treating exterior cold and interior heat syndrome
If exogenous wind-cold is accompanied by internal heat, aversion to cold and fever, body pain, irritability and no sweating, and tight pulse. It is often combined with gypsum and cassia twig, such as Daqinglong Decoction from Treatise on Febrile Diseases. It is also used to treat excessive drinking accompanied by asthma and cough. If exogenous wind-cold persists for a long time, lung qi will stagnate and turn into heat, resulting in high fever, cough, asthma, nasal fan, coughing up yellow phlegm or rust-like phlegm. It is often used with gypsum, almonds and licorice. Such as "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" Maxingshi Dry Soup.
Treating phlegm-yin gangrene
Taking Mahuang to dispel cold and dredge stagnation can be used to treat wind-cold arthralgia, yin gangrene, phlegm nuclear and other syndromes. If yin cold is toxic, phlegm gangrene may occur, with symptoms of swelling and pain of the skin, headless swelling, flat collapse and white depression, even bruising, pale tongue with white fur, and heavy or tight pulse. It can be combined with Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Colla cornus Cervi, Rhizoma Zingiberis Preparata, Cortex Cinnamomi, and Semen Sinapis Albae for treatment, such as Yanghe Decoction in Surgical Life Collection; Ephedra is often used to treat wind-cold-dampness arthralgia.
Ephedra diuretic detumescence
Ephedra is the main medicine of lung meridian, and the lung is mainly used to control the section and adjust the water channel. It can not only eliminate dampness, but also promote lung qi, dredge waterways, lower bladder, induce diuresis and reduce swelling. It is often used with gypsum and ginger to treat exterior syndrome such as wind pathogen attacking exterior, lung edema and dysuria. Deficiency of spleen-qi leads to damp pathogen returning from endogenous to exogenous wind, and feng shui struggles, resulting in edema, fever, evil wind, eyelid edema or edema all over the body, or yellow swelling. Use Yuemai Decoction (Herba Ephedrae, Gypsum Fibrosum, Ginger, and Glycyrrhrizae Radix) to disperse its exterior, and use Atractylodes Macrocephala to treat its interior, so that wind evil can be dispersed from the fur, and the water is wet and convenient for defecation. The combination of the two, the exterior and the interior are connected, and all diseases can be eliminated. Ephedra can be added to all symptoms of geomantic omen (edema with exterior syndrome), but the dosage should be small.
Treat drowsiness and drowsiness
Ephedra is mainly composed of ephedrine, which has a certain exciting effect and is good at treating drowsiness. It is often used with Atractylodes macrocephala and Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch. Such as "after elbow" to treat drowsiness. Because Ephedra has strong sweating ability, it should be contraindicated or used with caution for patients with mild exogenous wind-cold syndrome, palpitation and insomnia, lung deficiency and cough and asthma. Self-sweating due to physical weakness, night sweats, asthenic asthma, and hyperactivity of yang due to yin deficiency are contraindicated. Ephedra should be used with caution in patients with spontaneous sweating due to exterior deficiency, night sweats due to yin deficiency and asthma due to kidney deficiency. Moreover, ephedra excites the central nervous system, and people who suffer from excessive sweating and insomnia should use ephedra with caution. The elderly, the infirm and children should use roasted ephedra.
The honey-roasted ephedra is warm and moist, which reduces the effect of pungent sweat and enhances the functions of moistening lung and relieving cough, dispersing lung and relieving asthma and cough. It is mainly used to relieve symptoms, asthma and cough. Ephedra pilose antler is mild and suitable for the elderly, children and the elderly to catch a cold. 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.
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