痹证用麻黄浅识

Use of ephedra in treating arthromyodynia

历代医家多以麻黄治疗外感风寒、咳喘、水肿等症,却忽视其在痹证治疗中的应用。结合历代本草、方书对麻黄治疗痹证的论述,笔者认为麻黄以其辛温走散之性,善于祛风除湿、温经散寒、通络宣痹,深合痹证风寒湿邪气袭人,邪阻经络,气血不畅,瘀血内阻之病机,故麻黄适当配伍后,可广泛用于各型痹证,并附验案佐证。

Doctors in the past dynasties always used ephedra to treat disease of exogenous wind-cold,cough,asthma and edema,but ignored its application in treating arthromyodynia.It could be deduced from the record of the books of Chinese medicine and prescriptions that ephedra had the nature of pungent and warm,could dispel wind and remove wetness,warm channel and expel cold,remove obstruction in collaterals.All of those were correspondent with the pathogenesis of arthromyodynia.Thus,ephedra can be widely used in types of arthromyodynia.Proven case was also included in this article.