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Plant Ephedra nevadensis (Ephedraceae)

Common Names

Brigham Tea, Mormon Tea

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Sort descending	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
(+)-NEOPSEUDOEPHEDRINE?	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CALCIUM	28	Plant	4500.0	58100.0	4.76	Duke, 1992 *
EPHEDRINE	49	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
EPHEDRINE	49	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EPHEDRINE	49	Root	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
EPHEDRINE	49	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
LUCENIN-2	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PHOSPHORUS	4	Plant	not available	5000.0	0.68	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROTEIN	0	Plant	not available	50000.0	-1.01	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
RESIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
TANNIN	35	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VICENIN-2	12	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.

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