High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is a condition where the force of blood against your artery walls is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The researchers examined Ephedra's occurrence and potential applications during the Late Pleistocene by analyzing exceptionally preserved plant macrofossils found in archaeological layers that ...

Ephedra was not consumed for food but specifically for medical purposes, he emphasized, noting that all human remains and plant evidence found in Taforalt Cave date back approximately 15,000 years ...

The discovery of ephedra plants in Afghanistan and a booming end-user market in the Gulf States is fueling a growing drug crisis across the Middle East.

Ephedra is an important plant in Chinese medicine; however, there are few reports on two species of Ephedra which are distributed at high altitudes from 3000 to 5200 meters. We collected a total of 84 ...

A wild, green shrub that has grown for centuries in the central mountains of Afghanistan is dividing international drug experts probing the embattled nation’s ballooning methamphetamine trade ...