Ephedra is a commonly used dispelling wind and cold medicine in traditional Chinese medicine. It has high medicinal value, and it has the effects of inducing sweat, relieving exterior syndrome, calming cough and relieving asthma, and promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. It is especially effective in treating colds and wind-cold conditions!
1. Stewed Sheep Lung with Ephedra Root
Ingredients: 50g Ephedra root, 1 sheep lung.
Method: Wash the fresh sheep lung and stew it with Ephedra root in water. Add a little salt for seasoning. After it is cooked, take out the sheep lung and cut it into strips. Serve with meals.
Effects: Treats long-term cough, rapid breathing, night sweats, nourishes the lungs, calms cough, and stops sweating and asthma.
2. Steamed Pear with Ephedra
Ingredients: 3-5g Ephedra, 1 large pear.
Method: Grind the Ephedra into coarse powder. Remove the pear core and stuff the Ephedra into the pear. Seal the pear and insert a wooden skewer. Then put it in a bowl and steam until cooked. Remove the Ephedra and consume the pear juice.
Effects: Stops coughing, suitable for the early and spasmodic stages of whooping cough in children. It can also be used for cough caused by bronchitis in children.
3. Ephedra and Dried Ginger Porridge
Ingredients: 6g Ephedra, 6g dried ginger, 3g licorice, 3g scallion, 100g glutinous rice.
Method: Boil Ephedra, dried ginger, and licorice in water, filter the juice and remove the residue. Wash the glutinous rice and cook it into porridge with the decoction. Clean and chop the scallion, add it to the porridge when it is almost done, stir well, and cook for a while.
Effects: Treats deficiency of lung yang, cough with phlegm, aversion to cold, runny nose, and bronchial asthma.
