Nongbenfang Ma Huang Tang(2081)

Nongbenfang Ephedra Soup
Huang Tang(2081)

【Ingredients per 10g
Concentrated particles]

Ephedra costs 2 cents and 4 cents, Guizhi costs 1 cent and 6 cents, bitter almond costs 2 cents and 4 cents, and licorice costs 8 cents.

【effect】

Pungent and warm, it induces sweating, relieves the lungs and relieves asthma.

【Indications】

Exogenous wind-cold symptoms are symptomatic. Severe aversion to cold, mild fever, headache, joint pain, breathlessness without sweating, thin white fur, and floating and tight pulse.

【Fang Yi】

This prescription is one of the representative prescriptions for treating exogenous diseases in Treatise on Febrile Diseases and has been widely used throughout the ages. In the prescription, ephedra is bitter, pungent and warm, relieves sweating, relieves the lungs and relieves asthma; cinnamon twig relieves muscles and dispels wind, helps ephedra to induce sweating; almonds relieves lung qi, strengthens the power of ephedra to relieve asthma, and roasted licorice harmonizes various medicines and prevents diseases. Sweat damages body fluids. The combined use of various medicines can induce sweating and relieve external symptoms, expel wind and cold, open the hair orifices and interstitial organs, unblock lung qi, and eliminate evil spirits caused by sweating.

[Key points of syndrome differentiation]

1.
Fever and aversion to cold.

2.
Headache and body aches.

3.
No sweating and panting.

4.
Pulse is loose and tight.

[Addition and subtraction]

1.
Dampness: Add Atractylodes to dispel cold and eliminate dampness.

2.
Treating internal heat: Add gypsum to clear internal heat.

3.
Cough: Add mulberry bark, perilla leaves, tangerine peel, and poria to eliminate phlegm and relieve cough.

【Pay attention to taboos】

It should not be used if external evils enter the body and transform into heat, measles has penetrated, sores have ulcerated, edema caused by deficiency, vomiting and diarrhea, etc.

【Modern Application】

This prescription induces sweating, reduces fever, relieves cough and asthma, enhances the ventilation function of the lungs, and relieves tracheal (bronchial) smooth muscle spasm. Used for colds, flu, bronchitis, upper respiratory tract infections, neuralgia, and arthritis.