OFFICIAL NAMES: Ephedra, Ephedra sinica STREET NAMES: Mahuang, ma huang, desert tea, Mormon tea, American ephedra, European ephedra, Pakistani ephedra, ephedrine, ephedrine alkaloids, pseudoephedrine DRUG CLASSIFICATIONS: Not scheduled, dietary...
Ephedra What Kind of Drug Is It? Ephedra plants are yellow cone-bearing bushes that grow in desert areas. The Chinese herbal remedy ma huang (ma-HWANG) is made from the twigs of the ephedra bush. It has been used to treat asthma (AZ-muh), a lung...
For over 5,000 years Chinese physicians have used the scrubby plant ma huang to treat asthma, a severe breathing condition. Ma huang is the Chinese name of the plant of the genus Ephedra, the source of the modern drug ephedrine. Introduction of the...
Ephedra refers to the plant Ephedra sinica.[1] E. sinica, known in Chinese as ma huang (麻黃; pinyin: má huáng), has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for 5,000 years for the treatment of asthma and hay fever, as well as for the common...
The federal government's upcoming ban of the dietary supplement ephedra, linked to a number of deaths and other harmful effects including dangerously high blood pressure, is likely to send a lot of consumers searching for alternatives to help shed unwanted pounds. First, a...
It's not your imagination: A few products containing ephedra are back on the market again, after the supplement was banned by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2004. Whether these products are being sold legally is under debate. At the FDA's behest,...
California and 10 local prosecutors have reached a $1 million settlement with diet-pill maker Nutraquest Inc., which was accused of using deceptive techniques to sell weight-loss products that contained ephedra. The Food and Drug Administration banned ephedra in April 2004...
Punter Todd Sauerbrun won his grievance against the New England Patriots on Wednesday and is now a free agent.The 13-year veteran is expected to join the Denver Broncos. He agreed to a one-year deal with them earlier this month, but the Patriots matched it through...
