This product is Ephedra family herbaceous small shrub grass Ephedra (Ephedra sinica Stapf.), Scouring Rush Herb Ephedra (Ephedra equisetina Bge.) and middle Ephedra (Ephedra intermediaHerbaceous stems of Schrenk et C. A. Mey.). Mainly produced in Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Gansu and other places. Harvested between the Beginning of Autumn (13th solar term) and Frost's Descent (18th solar term), dried in the shade and cut into sections. Use raw, roasted with honey or pounded into velvet.

Ephedra

Ephedra

[Property]

acrid and slightly bitter, warm. act on lung and bladder channels.

[Efficacy]

Treatment of influenza, enterovirus, and various viral colds, Chinese medicine is more refined, non-toxic, and effective than Western medicine

[Indications]

1. For wind-cold common cold. This product has pungent taste, warm nature and dissipates cold. It mainly enters the lung and bladder meridian. It has the function of opening striae and interstice, penetrating hair orifices, inducing sweating to release exterior wind-cold, and is an excellent product for releasing exterior with pungent-warm, so it is multi-purpose. For external contraction wind-cold, aversion to cold without sweating, fever headache, common cold with floating and tight pulse, it is re-identified as wind-cold syndrome/pattern of exterior-excess type, every time with Cinnamon Twig Mutual reinforcement is used, such as Ephedra Decoction.
2. For cough panting. This product dissipates pungent and relieves bitterness, warms and relieves pain, enters the lung meridian, can diffuse wind-cold externally, and open ventilating lung qi internally. It has good diffusing the lung and relieving panting effects, and is suitable for external bundles of wind-cold. lung qi Excess syndrome/pattern, often used in combination of medicinals Bitter Apricot Seed and Liquorice Root, such as Three-Unconventional Decoction . In addition, this product's combination of medicinals Asarum, Dried Ginger, Pineilia, etc. can also cure cold phlegm, cough panting, The phlegm is abundant and clear, such as Minor Green-Blue Dragon Decoction. If the lung heat is excessive and the patient has high fever and shortness of breath, always use it with Gypsum, Bitter Apricot Seed, Liquorice Root for clearing the lung and relieving panting, such as Ephedra, Bitter Apricot Seed, Gypsum and Licorice Decoction.
3. For wind edema edema. This product opens the lung qi at the upper end and enters the bladder at the lower end. It is an important medicine for ventilating the lung and diuresis. It can be used with Liquorice Root for edema, dysuria and exterior syndrome/pattern of wind and water. Liquorice and Ephedra Decoction; if there is both internal heat and spleen deficiency, combination of medicinals Gypsum, Fresh Ginger Rhizome, Liquorice Root can be used and White Atractylodes Rhizome and other drugs. In addition, Ephedra has the effect of dispersing cold and relieving stagnation, and is used to treat wind-cold impediment diseases, gangrene, and subcutaneous nodule.
4. relieving stuffy nose, promoting eruption, relieving itching: treating wind-cold external nasal congestion, allergic rhinitis, rubella cutaneous pruitus, measles and poor hair penetration.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "Maintains apoplexy, disease caused by cold headache, warm malaria, causes sweating, removes evil heat, relieves cough with dyspnea, except Hanre , breaking the disease’s absdominal mass."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 3~10g. It is suitable for inducing sweating to release exterior. It can be used for relieving cough and asthma.

[Precaution]

This product has strong dispersion, so it should be used with caution in those with exterior deficiency spontaneous sweating, yin deficiency night sweat and deficiency-type dyspnea.

[Modern Pharmacology]

The main component of this product is Ephedra base, and contains a small amount of pseudo-Ephedra base, volatile oil, etc.

• The effects of Ephedra base on heart blood vessels are similar to those of epinephrine, but the effects are 7 to 10 times longer than epinephrine. It can increase myocardial contractility and cardiac output, and increase cardiac output. , brain, and muscle blood flow.
• Ephedra base and pseudo-Ephedra base both relieve bronchial smooth muscle spasm. Ephedra base relaxes bronchial smooth muscle less than epinephrine, but its effects are longer lasting. Eye drops (topical application) have a pupil dilating effect.
• Ephedra volatile oil has a sweating effect, and Ephedra alkali can increase and accelerate the secretion of human sweat glands in high-temperature environments. Animal experiments have not confirmed that Ephedra alone can induce sweating.
• Ephedra volatile oil emulsion has antipyretic properties.
• Pseudo-Ephedra base has a significant diuretic effect.
• Ephedra alkaline can excite the heart, constrict blood vessels, and increase blood pressure. It has a significant stimulating effect on the central nervous system and can cause excitement, insomnia, and restlessness.
• Volatile oil has an inhibitory effect on influenza viruses.