[Preparation method and dosage]

The above 4 ingredients, take 1.4 liters (7 shēng), boil the ephedra first, reduce 400 ml (2 shēng), white part-removed foam; all the medicines in it, decoted to 600 ml (3 shēng). Remove the water and administer 200 ml (1 shēng) while warm.

[Efficacy]

ventilating lung: releasing heat, relieving cough and asthma.

[Indications]

external contraction wind-cold, lung heat exuberance syndrome/pattern. Unresolved body heat, severe wheezing and shortness of breath, or inflamed nose, thirst, thin yellow tongue coating, slippery and rapid pulse.

[Prescription]

This prescription is suitable for cases where wind-heat invades the lungs, or wind-cold stagnation turns into heat and blocks the lung qi. The amount of gypsum in the recipe is more than twice that of Ephedra, in order to control the pungent and warm nature of Ephedra and turn it into clearing heat With pungent-cool medicinals, the two medicines are used together to clear the ventilating lung and relieve the stagnation of heat and relieve asthma; Liquorice Root tonifying qi, harmonizes various medicines, matches gypsum, sweet and cold can promote fluid production to quench thirst, and can prevent Great Cold (24th solar term) hurts the stomach.

[Key points of syndrome differentiation]

1. Stridor.
2. fever.
3. The fur is yellow.
4. Pulse count.

[Addition and subtraction]

1. panting: Add Pepperweed Seed, Earthworm, Belamcanda Rhizome.
2. Lung heat: add Heartleaf Houttuynia Herb, Plantain Herb, Skullcap Root.
3. dysphoria thirst: add Phelloendron Bark, Anemarrhena.
4. fever aversion to wind: Add Bupleurum, Peony Root.
5. Phlegm is difficult to come out of: add Platycodon Root, Trichosanthes Seed.
6. In phlegm, add blood: add lalang grass rhizome, Platycladus.
7. Pneumonia and asthma: combined with White-Draining Powder, the effect is very good.

[Modern application]

Panting, acute bronchitis, pneumonia, whooping cough, paranasal sinusitis, urticaria measles, common cold, measles.