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
METHYLBENZYLAMINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
METHYLEPHEDRINE	0	Plant	not available	700.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
METHYLEPHEDRINE	0	Shoot	310.0	1340.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
MYRCENE	22	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
MYRCENE	22	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
MYRISTICIN	31	Shoot	not available	2.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-METHYL-EPHEDRINE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
NIACIN	39	Plant	19.0	90.0	0.19	Duke, 1992 *
NONACOSAN-10-OL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
NONACOSANE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
NONADECANE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONANAL	0	Shoot	not available	2.0	-0.73	Duke, 1992 *
NONANOIC-ACID	2	Shoot	not available	3.0	-0.40	Duke, 1992 *
NOR-EPHEDRINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NOR-EPHEDRINE	0	Shoot	180.0	1420.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
NOR-PSEUDOEPHEDRINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
NOR-PSEUDOEPHEDRINE	0	Shoot	1100.0	1420.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
OCTADECANE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTANOIC-ACID	5	Shoot	not available	6.0	1.73	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID	9	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	5	Hatano, T., Yasuhara, T., Yoshihara, R., Agata, I., Noro, T., and Okuda, T. 1989. Effects of Interaction of Tannins with Co-existing Substances.VII. Inhibitory Effects of Tannins Related Polyphenols on Xanthine Oxidase. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(5): 1224-1229