Ephedra's efficacy and effects, an old Chinese doctor tells you

Traditional Chinese medicine is becoming more and more popular. Everyone believes that it has few side effects and is safe, unlike Western medicine which often uses antibiotics for treatment, which can cause great harm to the body. Ephedra is a common Chinese medicinal ingredient, so what are its effects?

1. Efficacy and Function of Ephedra

Induces sweat and relieves exterior symptoms; clears lung qi and relieves asthma; promotes diuresis and reduces swelling. It is used to treat wind-cold exterior syndrome; aversion to cold and fever; no sweating; headache and body aches; evil obstruction in the lungs; stagnation of lung qi; cough and asthma; wind-induced edema; difficulty urinating; rheumatic arthralgia; numbness of the skin and itchy rashes; genital ulcers and phlegm nodules.

Used for colds, chest tightness, cough, edema and bronchial asthma. Honey ephedra moistens the lungs and relieves cough. It is mostly used for asthma and cough when the external symptoms have been relieved.

① "Ben Jing": It is used to treat stroke, typhoid fever, headache, and warm malaria. It can induce sweating, remove evil heat, relieve cough and shortness of breath, eliminate cold and heat, and break up hard masses.

② "Bielu": It is used to treat the slow and urgent evil spirits of the five internal organs, wind pain in the side, and other diseases of the breast. It can stop salivation, clear the pores, and relax the muscles; it can expel evil spirits and eliminate red and black spots.

③ "Materia Medica": Treats toxic wind, stubborn numbness of the body, and numbness of the skin and flesh.

④ "Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): Opens the nine orifices, regulates blood circulation, and resists mountain mist and miasma.

⑤ "Zhenzhunang": It can relieve the fullness in the Wei, remove the cold in the Ying, and induce sweat in the Taiyang and Shaoyin meridians.

⑥ "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": Treats blocked nasal passages, inability to smell fragrance or odor, and cough caused by cold lungs.

⑦ "Compendium of Materia Medica": Disperses red eye swelling and pain, edema, wind swelling, and postpartum blood stasis.

⑧ "Scientific Folk Herbs": Treats asthma, hay fever, whooping cough, tracheobronchitis, etc.

⑨ "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": Effective for joint pain. J

⑩ "Method of Identification of Chinese Medicine Shape and Properties": Treats abdominal pain, diarrhea, hernia, eye diseases and colds.

2. Notes:

Those who are weak and suffer from spontaneous sweating, night sweats, and asthma should not take it.

① "Bencao Jing Jizhu": Magnolia officinalis is the messenger. It dislikes magnolia and pyrifera.

② "Bie Lu": Do not take too much, it will make you weak.

③ "Shu Materia Medica": Baiwei is the messenger.

④ "Introduction to Medicine": It is forbidden to use for those with cold, sweating, and yin deficiency and food poisoning.

⑤ "Bencao Jingshu": spontaneous sweating due to superficial deficiency, night sweats due to yin deficiency; lung deficiency with heat, cough with phlegm and nasal congestion; severe heat from sores and scars, which are not caused by the accumulation of cold evil and lead to spontaneous dizziness; colds in weak people, asthma due to qi deficiency; yin deficiency and fire inflammation, resulting in dizziness and headache; it is forbidden to use in the south due to stroke and paralysis, and people with yang deficiency and loose pores on a daily basis.