Mahwang
Ephedra · Ephedrae Herba
한글 마황 · Pinyin Ma Huang
麻黃
Properties 性味
- Taste & nature
- Acrid, slightly bitter · warm
- Channels entered
- Lung, Bladder
- Actions
- Strongly induces sweating and releases exterior cold, disseminates Lung Qi to calm wheeze, promotes urination
- Typical dose
- 2–9 g
- Caution
- Contains ephedrine — regulatory restrictions apply in the US; avoid in hypertension, heart disease, and deficiency sweating
Appears in 147 formulas 處方
- Ephedra Decoction麻黃湯 12 g · Chief 君
- Kudzu Decoction葛根湯 8 g · Deputy 臣
- Minor Blue-Green Dragon Decoction小靑龍湯 6 g · Chief 君
- Five Accumulations Powder五積散 4 g · Deputy 臣
- Lindera Smooth the Qi Powder烏藥順氣散 6 g · Deputy 臣
- Ephedra, Apricot Kernel, Licorice, and Gypsum Decoction麻杏甘石湯 6 g · Chief 君
- Three-Unbinding Decoction三拗湯 6 g · Chief 君
- Major Blue-Green Dragon Decoction大靑龍湯 12 g · Chief 君
- Ephedra, Aconite, and Asarum Decoction麻黃附子細辛湯 8 g · Chief 君
- Maidservant from Yue Decoction plus Atractylodes越婢加朮湯 12 g · Chief 君
- Kudzu Decoction plus Cnidium and Magnolia Flower葛根湯加川芎辛夷 8 g · Deputy 臣
- Siler and Platycodon Sage-Penetrating Powder防風通聖散 1.8 g · Deputy 臣
- Arrest Wheezing Decoction定喘湯 6 g · Chief 君
- Yang-Heartening Decoction陽和湯 1.5 g · Assistant 佐
- Wash the Heart Powder洗心散 4 g · Chief 君
- Earthworm Powder地龍散 2 g · Assistant 佐
- Mysterious Left Channel Decoction神秘左經湯 2 g · Chief 君
- Ephedra Left Channel Decoction麻黃左經湯 2.8 g · Chief 君
- Head-Turning Powder回首散 6 g · Deputy 臣
- Ephedra and Licorice Decoction麻黃甘草湯 12 g · Chief 君
- Spleen-Surpassing Decoction越婢湯 12 g · Chief 君
- Cinnamon and Atractylodes Decoction桂朮湯 4 g · Deputy 臣
- Ephedra in Pure Wine Decoction麻黃醇酒湯 40 g · Chief 君
- Ephedra, Apricot Kernel, Coix and Licorice Decoction麻杏薏甘湯 8 g · Chief 君
- Inula Decoction旋覆花湯 4 g · Chief 君
- Protect Peace Pill保安丸 20 g · Assistant 佐
- Ephedra and Cimicifuga Decoction麻黃升麻湯 4 g · Chief 君
- Ephedra and Cinnamon Twig Decoction麻黃桂枝湯 4 g · Chief 君
- Belamcanda Decoction射干湯 2 g · Deputy 臣
- Chuanxiong and Pueraria Decoction芎葛湯 4 g · Deputy 臣
- Beautiful Marsh Free the Qi Decoction麗澤通氣湯 1.2 g · Deputy 臣
- Chuanxiong Powder芎藭散 2.8 g · Deputy 臣
- Warm the Lung Decoction溫肺湯 8 g · Chief 君
- Free the Orifice Decoction通竅湯 1.2 g · Deputy 臣
- Cimicifuga Stomach Wind Decoction升麻胃風湯 2 g · Deputy 臣
- Cinnamon and Aromatics Powder for the Ear桂香散 2.8 g · Deputy 臣
- Notopterygium Powder for the Teeth羌活散 12 g · Deputy 臣
- Scorpion Tail Powder蝎梢散 6 g · Deputy 臣
- Asarum Powder for the Teeth細辛散 12 g · Chief 君
- Angelica and Gentian Powder當歸龍膽散 4 g · Deputy 臣
- Platycodon Decoction for a Lost Voice桔梗湯 2 g · Deputy 臣
- Notopterygium and Aconite Decoction羌活附子湯 4 g · Chief 君
- Typhonium Powder for Brain Wind白附子散 20 g · Deputy 臣
- Divine Sage Powder神聖散 8 g · Chief 君
- Move the Qi Cyperus and Perilla Powder行氣香蘇散 4 g · Deputy 臣
- Gentiana Macrophylla and Notopterygium Decoction秦艽羌活湯 2 g · Deputy 臣
- Modified Cyperus and Poria Powder加減香苓散 2.8 g · Chief 君
- Pueraria and Tangerine Peel Decoction葛根橘皮湯 4 g · Chief 君
- Regulate the Centre Decoction for Yin Macules調中湯 1.2 g · Envoy 使
- Harmonize and Supplement the Qi Decoction冲和補氣湯 0.8 g · Envoy 使
- Notopterygium Push Back the Screen Decoction羌活退瞖湯 0.8 g · Envoy 使
- Atractylodes and Saposhnikovia Decoction蒼朮防風湯 8 g · Deputy 臣
- Minor Prolong Life Decoction小續命湯 4 g · Chief 君
- Prolong Life Decoction, Added and Subtracted加減續命湯 0 g · Chief 君
- Expel Wind Decoction排風湯 4 g · Chief 君
- Expel Wind Decoction, Added and Subtracted加減排風湯 2.8 g · Assistant 佐
- Notopterygium Overcome Wind Decoction羌活愈風湯 1.6 g · Assistant 佐
- Dispel Wind Supreme Treasure Elixir祛風至寶丹 10 g · Assistant 佐
- Tiantai Powder天台散 2.4 g · Chief 君
- Disperse Wind and Normalize Qi Decoction踈風順氣湯 2 g · Chief 君
- Eight Treasures Return of Spring Decoction八寶回春湯 1.6 g · Assistant 佐
- Ginseng Normalize Qi Powder人參順氣散 4 g · Chief 君
- Free the Qi and Drive Out Wind Decoction通氣驅風湯 2 g · Assistant 佐
- Secretly Transmitted Normalize Qi Powder秘傳順氣散 2.4 g · Assistant 佐
- Ward Off Wind Elixir禦風丹 60 g · Chief 君
- Ward Off the Xun Wind Lozenge辟巽錠子 640 g · Envoy 使
- Chuanxiong and Poria Decoction川芎茯苓湯 4 g · Deputy 臣
- Ephedra Powder for Joint-Running Wind麻黃散 8 g · Chief 君
- Clematis Remove the Pain Drink靈仙除痛飮 4 g · Chief 君
- Take Up the Pain Powder拈痛散 20 g · Assistant 佐
- Black Snake Powder烏蛇散 40 g · Chief 君
- Retreat the Wind Powder退風散 4 g · Deputy 臣
- Notopterygium and Ephedra Decoction羌麻湯 2.8 g · Chief 君
- Saposhnikovia Decoction for Moving Impediment防風湯 2 g · Assistant 佐
- Poria Decoction for Painful Impediment茯苓湯 4 g · Assistant 佐
- Ephedra, Aconite and Licorice Decoction麻黃附子甘草湯 8 g · Chief 君
- Ephedra and Cinnamon Twig Decoction for Taiyang麻黃桂枝湯 4.8 g · Chief 君
- Cinnamon Twig and Yuebi Half-and-Half Decoction桂婢各半湯 4 g · Deputy 臣
- Cinnamon Twig and Ephedra Half-and-Half Decoction桂麻各半湯 6 g · Chief 君
- Asarum, Ephedra and Three Whites Decoction辛黃三白湯 2 g · Assistant 佐
- Rectify the Yang Powder for the Yin Pattern正陽散 6 g · Chief 君
- Ephedra and Apricot Kernel Drink麻黃杏仁飮 4 g · Chief 君
- Ten Spirits Decoction十神湯 4 g · Chief 君
- Scallion White Powder葱白散 8 g · Chief 君
- Disperse Wind and Resolve a Hundred Ills Powder消風百解散 4 g · Chief 君
- Double Resolution Powder雙解散 2 g · Chief 君
- Black Slave Pill黑奴丸 80 g · Chief 君
- Three Yellows and Gypsum Decoction三黃石膏湯 4 g · Assistant 佐
- Spirit Atractylodes Powder for Cold Damage神朮散 4 g · Chief 君
- Anemarrhena and Ephedra Decoction知母麻黃湯 4 g · Chief 君
- Tussilago Powder款冬花散 8 g · Chief 君
- Inula Powder金沸草散 4 g · Deputy 臣
- Five Contrary Ingredients Decoction五拗湯 6 g · Chief 君
- Modified Three Contrary Ingredients Decoction加減三拗湯 8 g · Chief 君
- Nine Treasures Decoction九寶飮 4 g · Chief 君
- Flowery Canopy Powder華盖散 8 g · Chief 君
- Apricot Kernel Decoction杏子湯 g · Assistant 佐
- Perilla Leaf Decoction紫蘇飮子 4 g · Chief 君
- Ginseng Moisten the Lung Decoction人參潤肺湯 4 g · Chief 君
- Eight Ingredient Tussilago Powder八味款冬花散 6 g · Chief 君
- Settle the Lung Powder安肺散 80 g · Deputy 臣
- Moisten the Lung and Dispel Cough Decoction潤肺除嗽飮 2.8 g · Deputy 臣
- Bupleurum, Bitter Orange and Platycodon Decoction柴胡枳桔湯 4 g · Chief 君
- Ephedra and Atractylodes Decoction麻黃蒼朮湯 32 g · Chief 君
- Ginseng Moisten the Lung Powder人參潤肺散 8 g · Chief 君
- Ginseng Settle the Panting Decoction人參定喘湯 4 g · Chief 君
- Supplemented Three Stubborn Ingredients Decoction加味三拗湯 8 g · Chief 君
- Five Tigers Decoction五虎湯 12 g · Chief 君
- Apricot Kernel and Perilla Decoction杏蘇飮 3 g · Chief 君
- Level the Lung Decoction平肺湯 3 g · Assistant 佐
- Cockcrow Pill雞鳴丸 40 g · Deputy 臣
- Release the Exterior Two Matured Ingredients Decoction解表二陳湯 2 g · Chief 君
- Five Tigers Two Matured Ingredients Decoction五虎二陳湯 4 g · Chief 君
- Maidservant-Surpassing Decoction越婢湯 8 g · Chief 君
- Ephedra Powder麻黃散 8 g · Chief 君
- Schisandra Decoction五味子湯 8 g · Chief 君
- Moisten the Lung Paste潤肺膏 20 g · Deputy 臣
- Arrest Wheezing Decoction定喘湯 g · Chief 君
- Ephedra and Notopterygium Decoction麻黃羌活湯 6 g · Chief 君
- Ephedra and White Atractylodes Decoction麻黃白朮湯 2.8 g · Chief 君
- Ephedra and Scutellaria Decoction麻黃黃芩湯 12 g · Chief 君
- Disperse the Evil Decoction散邪湯 4 g · Chief 君
- Pueraria Resolve the Flesh Decoction (Epidemic chapter)葛根解肌湯 8 g · Deputy 臣
- Sagely Powder聖散子 2 g · Deputy 臣
- Ten Spirits Decoction (Epidemic chapter)十神湯 4 g · Deputy 臣
- Grand Granary Lord's Ward Off Pestilence Elixir太倉公辟瘟丹 80 g · Assistant 佐
- Thousand-Gold Rhaponticum Decoction千金漏蘆湯 3.2 g · Assistant 佐
- Rhaponticum Beverage漏蘆飮子 4 g · Assistant 佐
- Construction and Defence Soul-Returning Decoction榮衛返魂湯 g · Assistant 佐
- Grind Away Wind Pill磨風丸 40 g · Deputy 臣
- Change the Bone Pill換骨丸 3200 g · Deputy 臣
- Soap-Bean Root Pill皂根丸 20 g · Assistant 佐
- Frankincense and Fish Glue Decoction香鰾湯 20 g · Deputy 臣
- Exchange the Bones Powder換骨散 40 g · Assistant 佐
- Duckweed Powder (Sores Formula)浮萍散 8 g · Assistant 佐
- Toxin-Washing Powder洗毒散 12 g · Assistant 佐
- Disperse Wind and Resolve Toxin Powder疏風解毒散 2.8 g · Chief 君
- Soul-Restoring Decoction還魂湯 12 g · Chief 君
- Gentian Draught龍膽飮子 10 g · Assistant 佐
- Pine Pollen Elixir for the Tortoise Back松蘂丹 20 g · Assistant 佐
- Bitter Orange Pill for the Tortoise Back枳殼丸 12 g · Assistant 佐
- Augmented Vanquish Toxin Powder (Children chapter)加味敗毒散 0 g · Envoy 使
- Red Cotton Powder (Children chapter)紅綿散 2 g · Chief 君
- Spirit Resolving Decoction神解湯 3.2 g · Deputy 臣
- Arnebia Salve for the Pox That Will Not Rise紫草膏 20 g · Chief 君
- Modified Red Cotton Powder for Convulsion in the Pox加減紅綿散 2 g · Chief 君
- Ephedra Decoction for the Pox That Turns Back麻黃湯 20 g · Chief 君