{"id":343,"date":"2009-04-17T09:17:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T16:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=343"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:39:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:39:47","slug":"ephedrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/ephedrine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ephedrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A plant alkaloid classified as a &#8220;sympathomimetic amine&#8221; &#8211; which are compounds that stimulate the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/users.rcn.com\/jkimball.ma.ultranet\/BiologyPages\/P\/PNS.html#sympathetic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sympathetic nervous system<\/a>.\u00a0 Ephedrine is used medicinally as a decongestant; it also acts as a stimulant and &#8211; in combination with caffeine &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ijo\/journal\/v28\/n11\/full\/0802784a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can assist with weight\/fat loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ephedrine &#8211; along with its isomers &#8211; are found in several medicinal plants.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/ephedra\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ephedra<\/a> sinica (Ma Huang)\u00a0was the principal form found in many over-the-counter diet supplements, although it is now banned for that purpose.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/sida-cordifolia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sida cordifolia<\/a> is another common source.<\/p>\n<p>Although ephedrine is still a legal, over-the-counter medication, sales are restricted due to the fact that it can be used to &#8220;cook&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drugabuse.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">methamphetamine<\/a>, an addictive, illegal stimulant drug.<\/p>\n<p>See Paul&#8217;s review, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ephedrine.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ephedrine \/ Ephedra: Potent Fat Burner, Or Dangerous Drug?<\/a>&#8221; for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plant alkaloid classified as a &#8220;sympathomimetic amine&#8221; &#8211; which are compounds that stimulate the\u00a0sympathetic nervous system.\u00a0 Ephedrine is used medicinally as a decongestant; it also acts as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[395,397,423,626,877,893,911,982],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}