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Ephedra distachya

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 4 constituent measurements for Ephedra distachya. This page reports what those source records contain and how to reach them. It carries no effect estimate, no dose and no recommendation.

Accepted name in source: Ephedra distachya L.

4Constituent measurements

0Safety records

3Cited sources

0Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

No Health Canada licensed natural health product in the snapshot names this species as a medicinal ingredient under this exact binomial. Absence here means absence from this one register under this one name, not absence from trade, and not a safety verdict.

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Recorded constituents

What analytical work has found in this species, at which plant part and preparation. A measured constituent is a fact about material, not about effect.

Substance	Plant part	Preparation	Concentration	Analytical method	Source
Alkaloids	Aerial part of plants	—	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Benzaldehyde	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	8 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Ephedrine	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	0.19 Percent	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Aerial part of plants	—	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier

Cited sources

The literature the compendium cites for this species. Metatron Health has no relationship with these authors or journals and earns nothing from citing them.

Moriyasu, Masataka., Endo, Masaru., Kanazawa, Ritsuko., Hashimoto, Yohei., Kato, Atsushi., Mizuno, Mizuo. High-performance liquid chromatographic determination of organic substances by metal chelate derivatization. III. Analysis of Ephedra bases. Chemical Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 1984, p. 744-747.
Aynehchi, Y., Sormaghi, M. H. Salehi., Amin, G. H., Soltani, A., Qumehr, N. Survey of Iranian plants for saponins, alkaloids, flavonoids and tannins. II. International Journal of Crude Drug Research, 1982, p. 61-70.
Kobaisy, M., Tellez, MR., Khan, IA., Schaneberg, BT. Essential oil composition of three Italian species of Ephedra. JOURNAL OF ESSENTIAL OIL RESEARCH, 2005, vol. 17, no. 5, p. 542-546.

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A constituent measurement is a fact about material at a stated preparation, not a statement about what that material does in a person. An adverse-effect or genotoxicity record is an observation reported in a source, most often in an animal or laboratory model. Neither is a Metatron Health conclusion about causality, human risk or benefit, and the absence of a record is not proof that a preparation is safe. Nothing here is diagnosis, prescribing or individual medical care.

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