subject: Ephedra Sinica [print this page] One of the family members of the naturally growing herbal plants called Ephedraceae, the Chinese native is recognized as Ephedra Sinica in medical sciences. Ephedra Sinica is also popular by its synonyms Chinese Ephedra or Ma Huang and Ephedra. Ephedra Sinica has wider ethno-medical usages, such as: the dried aerial parts of the plant are commonly used for treating asthma related problems, allergic rhinitis, infections of upper respiratory tract, colds besides being greatly used as one of the most powerful stimulants.
From the pharmacological point of views, Ephedra Sinica is indirectly sympathomimetic which affects the discharge of ephedrine and that way the non specific adrenergic receptor agonism. Ephedrine is better absorbed through the oral route and easily crosses the blood brain barricades and is even having a rather longer life span compared to epinephrine being resistant to MAO and COMT degradation, secretion in urinary tract. However, the entire herb is not alike to isolated ephedrine due to the pharmacodynamics of Pseudoephedrine as well as other components, besides there are pharmacokinetic variations between the whole herbal plant and an isolated ephedrine.
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The other popular names of the herb Ephedra Sinica being commonly used in different parts of the world are Ma Huang, Ephedra, Joint Fir as well as Desert Tea. The alpha and beta Adrenomimetic effects of the herb Ephedra Sinica are: minor vasoconstriction, vasodilatation of skeletal muscles, positive inotropism, probably hypertensive, sudorific, tachycardia, bronchodilator, mydriatic, stimulant and relaxant to urogenital tract, reducing visceral muscle motility, enhances visceral sphincter tone, lipolytic, thermo genetic, hyperglycemic and diuretic.
Mostly the stems of Ephedra Sinica are being used in medicinal preparations and it has qualities like Pungent, Acrid, Bitter and Mildly Warming. Its affinities are respiratory tract as well as urinary tract. The actions like Anti-rheumatic, bronchodilator, central stimulant, decongestant, diuretic, hypertensive, sudorific and Sympathomimetic could be noticed in Ephedra Sinica.
