Ephedra seeds found in an ancient burial pit may be the earliest evidence yet for the medicinal use of plants.

EPHEDRA is one of the three genera of the small Gymnospermous order Gnetaceæ, the two others being Gnetum and Welwitschia, that most curious of all gymnospermous plants. Ephedra is a type of ...

Ephedra. Artemisia. Yerba santa. Opium poppy. A lot of well-known drugs start with roots in the ground. The San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas is leading an effort to make curative plants even ...

Today, Ephedra is used for its medicinal properties. The plant has limited nutritional value, so it seems likely that the people who buried this young man 15,000 years ago were consuming it for ...

Lunar love It's the only known plant species that relies on the lunar cycle for survival – and we found out by complete accident. At night, Ephedra foeminea , a non-flowering relative of ...

So in 2015, Afghanistan’s producers began experimenting with extracting ephedrine from the ephedra plant, and by 2018, most local meth labs were using the plant.

Females need more water than males for their prolonged nuturing of developing seeds in the dry summer heat. Ephedra is browsed by pronghorn antelope, mule deer, elk, buffalo and horses. Male sheep and ...

Afghan meth from Ephedra plant emerging as the drug of choice The plant, harvested in at least eight provinces in Afghanistan, has emerged as a cheaper option, catalysing illegal meth production ...

Afghanistan also has the ephedra plant, which is not found in the biggest meth-producing countries: Myanmar and Mexico. It’s legal in Afghanistan and it grows everywhere. But you need a lot of ...