Ephedra-type alkaloids, a class of naturally occurring compounds derived from plants in the genus Ephedra, have long held interest in the pharmaceutical industry due to their stimulant and airway ...

I was reading about a product called ephedra-57 . It has ephedra and hoodia in it. Apparently these are natural herbs that aid in weight loss but Ive heard ephedra can cause heart problems. The ...

A host of over-the-counter diet pills, particularly herbal products, contain extracts of a plant called "ephedra", which can be just as dangerous as pharmaceutically produced ephedrine pills. US ...

Top enforcement officials said the Afghanistan origins of the drug indicated that it was processed from natural ephedrine extracted from the Ephedra plant that grows wild in the country’s highlands.

In a year like this the boys are strutting their stuff when it comes to our native ephedra. It's because this is a dioecious species, meaning "two houses". Male flowers are held on some plants ...

I haven’t touched diet pills since my own brush with ephedra, but once the mood-lifting energy of my first cup of Joshanda hit and I began answering emails at warp speed, I realized why the tea ...

But what most consumers don’t know is this: Ephedra, the herb that is the prime ingredient in many of those products, may carry deadly consequences. The federal government has been scrutinizing ...

Al-Er-G was marketed as a supplement for the relief of allergies. MusclMasster, LLC announced a recall of all bottles of Al-Er-G capsules after they were found to contain the banned ingredient ...

Ephedra, which has been banned by the FDA for over a decade, is no joke. The drug was blamed for poisoning over 10,000 people in 2002, when abuse hit its peak. The compound, extracted from Ephedra ...

Ephedra (ma huang) is an ephedra alkaloid botanical (primarily ephedrine and pseudoephedrine) with sympathomimetic activity. Ephedra can have a substantial effect on the cardiovascular and central ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A 13-year tally of deaths and poisonings from ephedra show a spectacular decline after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the sale of weight loss products ...

One of the great medicines of all time, ephedra (Ephedra sinica) has been in use for as long as 5,000 years. Known as Ma Huang in traditional Chinese Medicine, ephedra is native to Central Asia.