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

Common Names

Ma Huang; Chinese 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
P-CRESOL	8	Shoot	not available	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-MENTH-2-EN-7-OL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
P-MENTH-2-EN-7-OL	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
P-MENTHA-1,5-DIEN-7-OL	0	Shoot	not available	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PERILLYL-ACETATE	0	Shoot	not available	5.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Plant	678.0	3230.0	-0.17	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Plant	2772.0	13200.0	-0.60	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Plant	22680.0	108000.0	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
PSEUDOEPHEDRINE	17	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PSEUDOEPHEDRINE	17	Shoot	270.0	21400.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PSEUDOEPHEDRINE	17	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PULEGONE	28	Shoot	not available	7.0	-0.27	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Plant	2.3	11.0	-0.03	Duke, 1992 *
SAFROLE	29	Shoot	not available	2.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM	60	Plant	0.3	1.2	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
SILICON	4	Plant	0.7	3.1	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Plant	90.0	430.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
STYRENE	3	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Shoot	not available	39.0	-0.15	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
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acaricide	4	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	8	Duke, 1992 *
AChE-Inhibitor	2	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Acidulant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Adrenergic	2	Martindale's 29th
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	8	Duke, 1992 *
Allelochemic	4	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Allelopathic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Allergenic	12	Duke, 1992 *
Amphetaminagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Amphiglycemic?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Analeptic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Analgesic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic?	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anesthetic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anhydrotic	1	Martindale's 29th