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
Antiradicular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antirhinitic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiseptic	3	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Antisinusitic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antispasmodic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antistaphylococcic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antistreptococcic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antisyncopic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antithyroid	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antitumor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Ovary)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitussive	2	Schulz, V, Hansel, R and Tyler, VE. 1998. Rational Phytotherapy - A Physician's Guide to Herbal Medicine. 3rd ed. 1st English Edition. Translated by Terry C. Telger. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg. 306 pp.
Antiviral	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 224.
Antiyeast	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Astringent	2	Martindale's 29th
Bacteristat	1	Lamikanra, A., Ogundaini, A.O., and Ogungbamila*, F.O. Antibacterial Constituents of Alchornea cordifolia Leaves. Phytotherapy Research 4(5): 198.
Bronchodilator	2	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.