Plant Ephedra gerardiana (Ephedraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Pakistani Ephedra

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	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
10-NONACOSANOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS	0	Plant	8000.0	14000.0	-0.05	Duke, 1992 *
CATECHINS	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-N-METHYL-PSEUDOEPHEDRINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-PSEUDOEPHEDRINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ELLAGIC-ACID	51	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EPHEDRINE	49	Plant	4000.0	7000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-N-METHYL-EPHEDRINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-NOREPHEDRINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-1-TRIACONTANOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-NORPSEUDOEPHEDRINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONINS	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNINS	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOL	18	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Abortifacient	1	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Adrenergic	1	Martindale's 29th
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Allergenic	1	Martindale's 29th
Analgesic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anesthetic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenovirus	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiaflatoxin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergenic	2	Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antiallergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiangiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiappetant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarachidonate	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	3	Martindale's 29th
Antibacterial	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic	2	Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Anticancer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.