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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Ephedra sinica

Common Name
Sima-Mao; Ma Huang

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Uses for this plant.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Country/Region Reference
Oliguria China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Poison China Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Sweating China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Swelling China *
Trachitis China Keys, J.D. 1976. Chinese Herbs. Charles E. Tuttle Co., Tokyo.
Typhoid China *