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🌿 Herb
Ephedra
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Clinical Trials
3
Meta-Analyses
2
PubMed References
Top Conditions Studied with Ephedra
📋 Sample Trials
None linked yet.
📊 Sample Meta-Analyses
CRD42022325892
Meta-analysis of ephedra appendage fine spice decoction for the treatment of allergic rhinitis
Clinical research in traditional Chinese medicine
CRD42023387895
Efficacy and Safety of Ephedra for Treating Overweight & Obesity : A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Exploratory Study for Dose-Response
Overweight and obesity.
CRD42023403255
Ephedra-containing traditional Chinese medicine for Primary Nephrotic Syndrome in Adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Primary nephrotic syndrome (PNS) is a prevalent glomerular disease characterised
📚 Sample References
PMID 27376063
Efficient Use of a Crude Drug/Herb Library Reveals Ephedra Herb As a Specific Antagonist for TH2-Specific Chemokine Receptors CCR3, CCR4, and CCR8
Front Cell Dev Biol · 2016
PMID 35684137
Antioxidant and Antihyperglycemic Effects of Ephedra foeminea Aqueous Extract in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rats
Nutrients · 2022
🌿 All Herb data fields for Ephedra
🌿 Names
Pinyin Name
Ma Huang
中文名 (Chinese)
麻黄
Latin Name
Ephedrae Herba; Herba Ephedrae
English Name
Ephedra
Alias Names
龙沙; 狗骨; 卑相; 卑盐
☯ TCM Properties
Properties (性味)
Pungent; Slightly Bitter; Warm
Meridians (归经)
Lung; Bladder
Part Used
Herbaceous twigs
Therapeutic Class (EN)
Pungent-Warm Exterior-Releasing Medicinal
功效分类 (CN)
辛温解表药
🩺 Clinical Profile
Function (功能)
To induce perspiration for dispelling cold, to relieve asthma, and to cause diuresis.
Indication (主治)
Wind-cold exterior repletion syndrome, headache without sweating, headache and generalized pain, cough, fever, fever and aversion to wind, absence of sweating, congesting lung, non-diffusion of lung qi, cough and asthma, bronchial asthma, wind water edema, nasal congestion, allergic rhinitis, inhibited urination, wind-damp impediment pain, muscle numbness, wind papule itching, yin flat abscess and phlegm node.
Clinical Manifestations
1. its effects on cardiovascular system are similar to epinephrine in many aspects, but persist seven to ten times longer. the myocardial contractility and cardiac output are augmented and cardiac, cerebral and muscular blood flows are increased.2. its br
🔗 External References
🔍 Raw view — every non-empty column on this row (31 fields)
name
Ephedra
chinese name
麻黄
pinyin name
Ma Huang
latin name
Ephedrae Herba; Herba Ephedrae
english name
Ephedra
properties english
Pungent; Slightly Bitter; Warm
meridians english
Lung; Bladder
use part
Herbaceous twigs
symmap herb id
264
tcmid id
1660
tcmsp id
264
herb id str
HERB003658
function text
To induce perspiration for dispelling cold, to relieve asthma, and to cause diuresis.
indication
Wind-cold exterior repletion syndrome, headache without sweating, headache and generalized pain, cough, fever, fever and aversion to wind, absence of sweating, congesting lung, non-diffusion of lung qi, cough and asthma, bronchial asthma, wind water edema, nasal congestion, allergic rhinitis, inhibited urination, wind-damp impediment pain, muscle numbness, wind papule itching, yin flat abscess and phlegm node.
clinical manifestations
1. its effects on cardiovascular system are similar to epinephrine in many aspects, but persist seven to ten times longer. the myocardial contractility and cardiac output are augmented and cardiac, cerebral and muscular blood flows are increased.2. its br
therapeutic en class
Pungent-Warm Exterior-Releasing Medicinal
therapeutic cn class
辛温解表药
tcm id id
1398
alias name
龙沙; 狗骨; 卑相; 卑盐
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📊 Meta-Analyses
3 · systematic reviewCRD42022325892 Meta-analysis of ephedra appendage fine spice decoction for the treatment of all
→ Clinical research in traditional Chinese medicine
CRD42023387895 Efficacy and Safety of Ephedra for Treating Overweight & Obesity : A Systema
→ Overweight and obesity.
CRD42023403255 Ephedra-containing traditional Chinese medicine for Primary Nephrotic Syndrome i
→ Primary nephrotic syndrome (PNS) is a prevalent gl
📚 PubMed References
2 · cited researchPMID 27376063 Efficient Use of a Crude Drug/Herb Library Reveals Ephedra Herb As a Specific An
Front Cell Dev Biol
PMID 35684137 Antioxidant and Antihyperglycemic Effects of Ephedra foeminea Aqueous Extract in
Nutrients
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