What Is Ephedra?

Ephedra is a small shrub plant of the ephedraeaceae family. It is also a divergent cold medicine in traditional Chinese medicine. Generally, ephedra, equua ephedra and middle ephedra dry grassy stems are picked for drying in the autumn. In children, ephedra has a mild texture. In the textbook of traditional Chinese medicine, ephedra is referred to as "the lung and the bladder meridian". Ephedra can deflate the muscle surface, promote the patient to sweat, and can also relieve phlegm and cough, nourish the yin and constrict the lungs, transport water and dampness. In clinical practice, ephedra is often used for colds, cough, asthma, rheumatism, pain, genitalia, and sputum.

Produced in Liaoning, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, northwest Henan and Shaanxi provinces. Mongolia is also distributed.

Is an important medicinal plant, rich in alkaloids, second only to Ephedra equisetifolia. It has few woody stems and is easy to process and extract. Because it is often born in plains, hillsides, river beds, grasslands, etc., it is easy to harvest. Therefore, it is often used in medicinal purposes more than Ephedra equiseta. plant.

There is an old man who digs medicine, without children, and accepts an apprentice. Who thought this apprentice was arrogant,

Dried ephedra can be used as medicine

Only after learning a little fur, I look down on the master. Sometimes, the money for selling medicines is not given to the master, and he spends it secretly. When the master was heartbroken, he said to the apprentice, "You have hard wings, set up another door." The apprentice did not care: "Okay!" The master said uneasily, "However, there is a medicine that you cannot sell to People eat. "" What medicine? "" Leafless grass. "" What's wrong? "" The roots and stems of this grass are used differently; sweating stems and antiperspirant roots. If you make a mistake, you will die! Remember Have you lived? "" Remember. "" You memorize it again. "The apprentice opened his mouth and memorized it again, but he had no intention of memorizing, and didn't even think about it.

Since then, the apprentice and the apprentice broke up and each sold medicine. The master is not in front of him, the apprentice is more courageous, and although he does not know much about medicine, he dares to cure any disease. Within a few days, he was killed with a leafless grass. The family of the deceased was willing to give up, and he caught him at that time to see the magistrate. The county official asked, "Who did you learn from?" The apprentice had to name the master.

The county official ordered the master to say, "How did you teach? Let him kill someone!" The master said, "The villain is not guilty." "How can you say you are guilty?" "About leafless grass , I taught him a few words clearly. "When the county official heard it, he asked his apprentice:" Do you remember? I can listen to it if I carry it out. "The apprentice apologized:" Sweat is used for stems, antiperspirant is used for roots, If you make a mistake, you will die. "The magistrate asked again," Is the patient sweating or sweating? "The apprentice replied:" Sweating all over. "" What medicine do you use? "" Stalks of clover. " The official was furious: "It's just Hu Zhi! The patient has sweated and used sweating medicine, can he not die?" He said that he had beaten his apprentice forty boards and sentenced to three years in prison. The master is okay and released in court.

After the apprentice spent three years in prison, it became honest. He found a master who acknowledged his mistake and expressed his pain. The master saw that he had changed, so he left him and taught him the medical way. From here on, apprentices were very careful when using "leafless grass" again. Because this kind of grass caused him trouble and caused trouble, he called it "trouble grass". Later, because the root of the grass was yellow, he changed his name to "ephedra".