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
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
TETRAMETHYL-PYRAZINE	22	Shoot	not available	39.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Plant	not available	47.0	3.35	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
THIAMINE	0	Plant	10.0	47.0	2.11	Duke, 1992 *
TIN	4	Plant	2.3	11.0	-0.67	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-P-MENTH-2-EN-7-OL	0	Shoot	not available	2.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRICIN	9	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
TRIMETHYL-PYRAZINE	0	Shoot	not available	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TROCOSAN-1-OL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
UNDECANE	0	Shoot	not available	1.0	-0.73	Duke, 1992 *
VERBENOL	0	Shoot	not available	10.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Plant	not available	790000.0	0.08	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Plant	0.4	2.1	-0.49	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