Clinical evidence of the herbs of ephedra

This herb was first published in the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Divine Husbandman’s Classic of the Materia Medica), which is pungent, slightly bitter and warm, and belongs to the lung and bladder meridians. 2, ephedra efficacy is far more than sweating and relieving symptoms, promoting lung and asthma, diuretic and swelling three. 3, sweating, diuresis should be used raw, sizzling and can moisten the lungs. 4, typhoid sweating, ephedra as the main, almond as a supplement; treatment of asthma with almond as the main, ephedra as a supplement, the two drugs used in the formula for rapid results. Ephedra open coup, almond lung complex; ephedra sexual rigidity, almond sexual softness; ephedra external expansion, almond inhibition. 5, with ephedra soup, ephedra and licorice dosage to 3:1 is appropriate; if ephedra, licorice to a few, it is not sweat. 6, treatment of edema, ephedra can be increased from 6g to 30g, without the risk of excessive sweating, and urine is great, so this medicine with sweat medicine is very sweaty, with diuretics is very urinary. 7, Ephedra can be flexibly applied to all asthma symptoms, combining with Radix et Rhizoma Pseudostellariae to treat cold asthma, with Gypsum to treat cold-heat mixed asthma, with Scutellariae and Dilong to treat heat asthma, with Huang Qi to treat qi deficiency asthma, with Rhubarb to treat phlegm-heat intertwined solid asthma, with Shu Di and Zi He Che to treat kidney deficiency asthma, and with Er Chen Tang to treat phlegm turbidity asthma. 8.Ephedra treats asthma with decreasing effectiveness if taken continuously for a long time, but with intermittent use, the effect is greatly increased. 9, the “Nei Jing” has “all the qi stalls Yun chong inon Wei Baozizi Bo <橹静皇妗⑵艚嶂耍稍谑韪畏街屑勇榛6g open to lift the lung qi, the effect can be improved. 10, the treatment of renal colic, ephedra with horseradish, with the seeds, to relieve pain quickly, but not effective in draining stones. 11, ephedra for the treatment of bradycardia, sick sinus syndrome, the dosage should be large, 6g to start increasing, and should be first decoction to froth. 12, pediatric enuresis, the addition of ephedra in the treatment of kidney submersion, the efficacy is significantly improved.