Ephedra root and ephedra in the medicinal parts, sexual flavor and attribution, efficacy and application, application contraindications on the difference.
1. medicinal parts: ephedra is the ephedra plant ephedra, ephedra or ephedra in the ephedra family of dry herbaceous stems. Ephedra root is the dried root and rhizome of Ephedra family plant grass ephedra or Chinese ephedra.
2. Sexual flavor and meridian: ephedra is pungent, slightly bitter, warm, and belongs to the lung and bladder meridian. Ephedra root is sweet, astringent and neutral in nature, belonging to the heart and lung meridians.
3. Efficacy and application: Ephedra has the efficacy of sweating and dispersing cold, promoting the lungs to calm asthma, and inducing water retention and swelling, which can be used for wind-cold cold, chest tightness and coughing, and wind-water (sudden oedema of the head, face and limbs) and edema and other diseases.
Ephedra root has the effect of stopping sweating by consolidating the muscle surface, and can be used to treat spontaneous sweating, night sweating and other diseases.
4. Contraindications: Ephedra is strong in sweating, so it should be used with caution in sweating due to deficiency of surface (due to weak muscle surface and frequent natural sweating) and night sweating due to deficiency of yin and coughing due to deficiency of the kidneys not to hold qi, and should be used with caution in patients with excessive sweating and insomnia, and its adverse effects are still not clear.
The adverse effects of ephedra root are not clear, but its nature is astringent, and should not be used by those who have superficial evil (in the muscle surface of the evil).
If there is a need for medication, seek medical advice as soon as possible and use the medication under the guidance of a doctor.