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
IRON	6	Plant	4.4	21.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBUTYROPHENONE	0	Shoot	not available	10.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOMENTHOL	1	Shoot	not available	7.0	-0.89	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
KAEMPFEROL-RHAMNOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
KILOCALORIES	0	Plant	not available	3100.0	-0.19	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
L-ALPHA-TERPINEOL	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.
L-EPHEDRINE	13	Stem	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 *
LIGUSTRAZINE	3	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
LIMONENE	60	Shoot	not available	23.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL	0	Shoot	not available	32.0	-0.22	Duke, 1992 *
LONGIFOLENE	0	Shoot	not available	4.0	1.40	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Plant	443.0	2110.0	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Plant	1.0	5.4	-0.66	Duke, 1992 *
MAOKONINE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
METHYL-BUTANOATE	0	Shoot	not available	28.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-EUGENOL	20	Shoot	not available	23.0	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-PHENYL-CARBINOL	0	Shoot	not available	7.0	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
Antigingivitic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglycosuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigout	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemorrhagic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatotoxic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihiccup	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihistaminic	9	Ortiz De Urbina, A.V., Martin, M.L., Montero, M.J., Carron, R., Sevilla, M.A., San Roman, L. 1989. Antihistaminic activity of pulegone on the guinea-pig ileum. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 295-296, 1990.
AntiHIV	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperactivity	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihyperglycemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperkeratotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperkinetic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.