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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Ephedra nevadensis (Ephedraceae)

Common Names
Brigham Tea; Mormon Tea
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
(+)-NEOPSEUDOEPHEDRINE? 0 Plant CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CALCIUM 28 Plant 4500.0 58100.0 4.76 *
EPHEDRINE 49 Branches Jim Duke's personal files.
EPHEDRINE 49 Plant *
EPHEDRINE 49 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
EPHEDRINE 49 Stem Jim Duke's personal files.
LUCENIN-2 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
PHOSPHORUS 4 Plant 5000.0 0.68 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROTEIN 0 Plant 50000.0 -1.01 *
PROTEIN 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
RESIN 0 Plant CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
TANNIN 35 Plant *
VICENIN-2 12 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiinsomniac 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antilipolytic 1 *
Antimenopausal 1 *
Antimutagenic 1 *
Antimyasthenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antinarcoleptic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antinephritic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiobesity 1 *
Antiophidic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antiosteoporotic 2 *
Antioxidant 1 *
Antiperiodontitic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiPMS 1 *
Antiproliferant 1 *
Antiradicular 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antirenitic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antirheumatic 1 *
Antirhinitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antisinusitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antistress 1 *