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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antileukotriene	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antilipoperoxidant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antilupus	1	Martindale's 28th
AntiLyme	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphocytic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphomic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimaculitic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial	1	Rukunga, G. and Simons, A. J. 2006. The Potential of Plants as a Source of Antimalarial Agents - A Review. Africa Herbal Antimalaria Meeting. PlantaPhile Publications, Berlin. 72 pp.
Antimastalgic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastitic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimeasles	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antimelanomic	3	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMeniere's	1	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antimenopausal	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antimenorrhagic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic	4	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Antimetastatic (Stomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimigraine	4	Martindale's 29th
Antimitotic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.