Ephedra is the dried herbaceous stem of the plant Ephedra, Ephedra and Ephedra, family Ephedraceae. The “Compendium of Materia Medica” describes ephedra “its taste hemp, its color yellow”, ephedra because of the color yellow taste hemp and named. According to legend, an old man digging for medicine took on a disciple. But the disciple was very arrogant, the master let the disciple set up another business. The master said to him uneasily: “There is a medicine called leafless grass, its root and stem used for different purposes, sweating with the stem, stop sweating with the root, once the wrong, will die!” But the disciple did not take it to heart. Master and disciple parted, each selling their own medicine. Within a few days, the disciple used the leafless grass to cure a patient’s death. The family of the deceased took him to see the magistrate. The magistrate summoned the master to the hall and questioned him. The master told the magistrate that he had told his apprentice the difference between leafless herbs. The magistrate ordered the disciple to be beaten forty times and sentenced him to three years in prison. After his release from prison, the apprentice found the master and confessed his mistake, saying that he had changed his ways and re-learned from the master. Since then, the apprentice is very careful when using “leafless grass”. Because this grass has made him a big trouble, trouble, it was named “trouble grass”, and later because the root of this grass is yellow, only to change the name to “ephedra”. Ephedra has the effect of sweating and relieving symptoms, promoting lung and asthma, and reducing water and swelling. It can treat wind-cold colds, coughs and asthma, bronchial asthma, wind and water swelling, measles, itchy body and other conditions. Because of the strong sweating power of ephedra, it should be avoided or used with caution for light evidence of external wind-cold, palpitation, insomnia, cough and asthma of lung deficiency. The elderly, children and the physically weak should use roasted ephedra. Medicine and food have the same origin, and the Chinese medicine that has been handed down for thousands of years can not only prevent and cure diseases, but also have a gastronomic power that you do not know, so let’s enjoy the delicious culture of Chinese medicine on the tongue. Ephedra tofu Ingredients: 30 grams of ephedra, 15 grams of southern almonds, 125 grams of tofu, ginger appropriate amount. Method: 1, ephedra, almonds, wash and dry water. 2, tofu rinsed and cleaned, cut into pieces. 3, ephedra, almonds, tofu, ginger, put in the same pot, add water to the appropriate amount. 4, decocted for 1 hour after the dregs, eat tofu and drink soup. Effects: Clearing heat and moistening the lungs, relieving cough and asthma, laxative. Ephedra snow pear lean meat soup Ingredients: ephedra 8 grams, snow pear 2, north and south almonds 12 grams each, 200 grams of lean pork, red dates 3, such as sweet food under the ice sugar, such as salty food under the ginger 2 slices and salt. Practice: 1, snow pear washed, do not remove the skin, cut, remove the heart core. 2, ephedra, north and south almonds, red dates washed, soaked. 3, pork lean meat washed, not knife cut. 4, (such as salty food with ginger) under the tile pot, add 2000 ml of water (8 bowls of water), boil the fire and then change the fire for 2 hours, salt or rock sugar can be. Efficacy: clear heat and reduce fire, moisten the lungs to stop cough.