The efficacy of Ephedra Tang includes sweating and relieving the surface of the body by means of sweating, and promoting the lungs and calming asthma. It is commonly used in the treatment of typhoid fever (illness caused by fever due to the feeling of cold), chills (fear of cold) without sweating, headache and fever, and body aches and pains.
Ephedra Tang is a classic Chinese herbal soup consisting of ephedra, cinnamon sticks, almonds, and licorice.
Ephedra Tang is used for treating solar diseases (wind-cold attack on the surface of the body, resulting in chills and fever, head and body pains, and floating pulse) with wind-cold on the surface, strong headache and neck pain, body ache and lumbar pain, bone and joint pains, fever and chills, no sweating, chest fullness (swelling and discomfort in the chest) and wheezing, and a floating and tight pulse. In recent times, it is also used in bronchitis, bronchial asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, etc. See the above symptoms.
Asahwang Tang is a harsh agent that generates sweating with pungency and warmth, and is used in cases of sores, gonorrhea, epistaxis, hemorrhagic diseases, as well as in cases of exopathogens. Sweating due to deficiency of the surface (frequent natural sweating due to weakness of the muscular surface), etc., should be prohibited even if there is evidence of surface cold.
When treating with Ephedra Soup, it is necessary to be guided by a Chinese medicine practitioner to recognize the symptoms and not to use the medicine arbitrarily, so as to avoid adverse consequences.