Sweating and diuresis Ma Huang Tang works not only on the uterus, but also on the bladder and kidneys, which is why we say that Ma Huang Tang can sweat and diuretic. This case is from my “Sutra Salon”: there was an old woman who suffered from anxiety and restlessness and had been taking alprazolam. One day, after taking amoxicillin for a toothache, her whole body became swollen like mud, and her head became very swollen. The doctor gave her what medicine? Ephedra soup with Fangqi, ginger, jujube, 30 grams of ephedra; a dose of medicine, decoction three times are divided into three times, every eight hours to take. After eating the medicine must drink porridge, he has yellow rice porridge, is to learn from Zhang Zhongjing with Gui Zhi Tang method. The husband of this old lady said: “This Chinese medicine is really amazing! Indeed, Chinese medicine has this effect. I have also introduced in the “Ten types of Chinese medicine recipes”, Mr. Zhao Shouzhen’s medical case in the “Memoirs of treatment”, also the swelling of the whole body, also used ephedra soup to get the effect. Awakening the brain and opening the orifices Ephedra Tang is not only effective for the organs below, but also for the brain above. Ephedra soup can be used to treat gas poisoning, this is the report of “New Chinese Medicine”: said a man gas poisoning, although after resuscitation to revive, but after waking up is still very uncomfortable ah, dizziness, headache, chest tightness, irritability, memory loss, mental trance, with ephedra soup: ephedra, licorice 15 grams each, cinnamon branch, almond 10 grams each, only one dose of medicine, sweating, refreshing as usual. I often try this after eating ephedra to refresh my brain. I sometimes use Ephedra with seeds and pine soup and sometimes Ge Gen Tang when I have a cold, and after taking it, I usually sweat out in the middle of the night and get up the next morning with a very fresh mind. Therefore, ephedra is stimulating and can wake up the brain. Treating Stroke
What deserves our attention now is the question of whether ephedra-like formulae can treat stroke. Nowadays, when we treat stroke, we always say that Liver Yang is hyperactive and we dare not use Ephedra-like formulae. In fact, it is possible to consider the use of Ephedra and its analogues for stroke. The “Returning Soul Soup” in “The Essential Guide to the Golden Horoscope”, with ephedra, almonds and licorice, treats what? Stroke and violent death, that is, sudden death on the ground. This includes strokes. The “Ancient and Modern Recorded Experiments” can cure the heat rash of stroke: the body cannot hold itself and the mouth cannot speak. Mr. Huang Shibei will also speak on this issue later. He has been using the Life Renewing Soup very well to treat multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, acute neuritis, spinal meningioma, etc. He has used this formula well, and he will speak on it later. This formula is well used by him, and he will talk about it later. Xiao Ren Ren Ren Tang is recorded in “Qian Jin Fang”, which is used to treat stroke. Mr. Xu Lingtai also talked about it in the “Di Xi Medical Case”, and he treated stroke with Xiao Xuan Wei Tang and Da Huang, but we dare not use it now. Last time I saw a document, Mr. Xu Shibiao from Shanghai, he used Ephedra to treat stroke, whether it was hemorrhagic, obstructive, or mixed, he used a self-designed formula, called Tongbrain Formula. What is the composition? Ephedra, Cinnamomum, Glycyrrhiza, Radix et Rhizoma, and Rhizoma Chuanxiong. He observed that after using this formula, there was no increase in blood pressure and no rapid heartbeat. He said that as long as it is properly formulated, no side effects will occur. This case is from Mr. Zhao Shibiao. He said that in ’91, a university professor, surnamed Zhao, suffered a sudden stroke and was diagnosed with intracerebral edema by CT. After half a month of treatment, the stroke hemiplegia improved significantly, and after one month of treatment, the hemiplegia returned to normal. It was very encouraging to see. Let me tell you a case of mine. Not long ago, a middle-aged woman, who could not walk, came to me and said that there was a tumor in her spinal cord, and there was no way to cure her. What did I use for her? She couldn’t walk, so she dragged herself here. She couldn’t walk, so she dragged herself here. Later, she said that after taking this medicine, she could move her back slowly and could walk on the ground. This disease belongs to wind rash in Chinese medicine. Therefore, ephedra-like formula for treating wind disease deserves our attention. Treatment of psoriasis Psoriasis has a characteristic that the disease is light in summer and heavy in autumn and winter, and when it sweats, it gets better, and when it doesn’t sweat, it gets heavier. I used this formula well. The formula is Gui Zhi Fu Ling Wan combined with Peach Kernel Cheng Qi Tang, plus Raw Ephedra, which has Ephedra, Gui Zhi and Licorice, in fact it is an Ephedra Tang plus flavor formula. This formula, that is, open and diarrhea, but also add blood activation. There is not a single medicine in the entire formula that is not through, and it works very well in treating psoriasis. I don’t dare to say that it is completely cured, but at least it can quickly control the condition. Just now I saw a feedback message to me online, a girl, very serious pityriasis rosea, always can not be cured, just use this formula, solved. Ephedra soup is actually very mild Ephedra soup is actually a mild sweating agent, why do you say so? The reason is that there are cinnamon sticks and licorice in it, cinnamon sticks and licorice is Gui Zhi Gan Cao Tang, Zhang Zhong Jing used to treat “excessive sweating, the person forked hand from the heart, palpitations under the heart, want to get pressed”, how can excessive sweating? Not accurate! A large number of sweating palpitations, insomnia, this is an adverse reaction to an overdose of ephedra, cinnamon and licorice can inhibit and relieve this adverse reaction, which is the experience and wisdom of the ancients, greatly improving the safety of ephedra soup. Therefore, it is generally best to use ephedra with cinnamon twigs and licorice. Thinking in terms of formula and evidence With Ephedra formula, one must use a kind of thinking, we call it thinking in terms of formula and evidence! This morning, Dr. Feng talked about this way of thinking, that is, the correspondence between the formula and the evidence, which is called “if there is evidence, use the formula”. How did Yun Tieqiao become a medical student? It was because his two sons both died of typhoid fever, and he began to study the Treatise on Typhoid Fever. As a result, his fourth son also developed fever, no sweat, and asthma, and he asked many doctors to use tempeh, gardenia, mulberry leaf, chrysanthemum, almond, and mother of pearl, which many doctors liked to use in Shanghai at that time. I guess it was pediatric pneumonia. As a result, after eating, the symptoms became worse and worse. Mr. Yun Tieqiao was so anxious that he paced around the room all night, pacing around the room until the dawn, saying: “It is better to die with medicine than to sit and wait for death! This disease, this wheezing without sweating, is not the evidence of Ephedra Tang, as mentioned in the Treatise on Typhoid Fever? The first thing you need to do is to take this medicine, and then you can take it. From then on, he believed in sutra prescriptions. What kind of thinking did he use? It is the thinking of prescriptions and evidence! This time when we met in Nanyang, Mr. Lou Shaokun specifically on the Chinese medicine of this square evidence thinking made an exposition. Fangzhi thinking is a kind of wild thinking, is a kind of primitive thinking, is a macroscopic and holistic way of thinking. It is much better than the current rational thinking. What is the current Chinese medicine giving people? What “deficiency of middle energy, the urine will be changed”, what “nourishing the spleen is better than nourishing the kidneys”, what “long illnesses are more deficiency, long illnesses are more stasis”, what ” No phlegm does not make glare, no deficiency does not make glare, no stasis does not make glare” and so on. After these rational thoughts have framed you, your eyes will not be able to see anything. When we use sutra prescriptions, we use our eyes to see and rely on intuition. To use sutra prescriptions, you must be in good spirits and get enough sleep, so that you can identify what prescriptions to use among the many beings. If you don’t sleep well, if you are drowsy, or if you have been drinking, you can’t see a doctor, that’s how we need this intuitive way of thinking. I remember seeing Mr. Hiroshi Sakaguchi in Kyoto, Japan. Before he saw the doctor, he had to rub his face, chest up, “hey, hey” a few times, to be refreshed, that is the reason. The eyes are clear and bright, so that you can see clearly.