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Can you add cold water halfway through boiling ephedra?

No you can't.

Ephedra can be soaked in cold water for half an hour before boiling, and then decocted in water, but if there is a shortage of water during the process of decocting it should be added with boiling water, and if cold water is used, it is likely to affect the efficacy of the medicine in ephedra.

Ephedra is used for the treatment of wind-cold cold, can treat the body afraid of cold, cold, cold hands and feet and other symptoms, clinically need to cooperate with other traditional Chinese medicine effect is better.