{"id":345,"date":"2009-04-17T10:53:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T17:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:39:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:39:20","slug":"ephedra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/ephedra\/","title":{"rendered":"Ephedra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An herb used in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.botgard.ucla.edu\/html\/botanytextbooks\/economicbotany\/Ephedra\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">traditional Chinese medicine as a treatment for respiratory illnesses<\/a> (asthma, colds) and hay fever.\u00a0 Known as &#8220;Ma Huang,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/ods.od.nih.gov\/factsheets\/EphedraandEphedrine-HealthProfessional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ephedra was once a common ingredient in over-the-counter &#8220;natural&#8221;\u00a0weight loss\u00a0supplements<\/a>, as it&#8217;s a source of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/ephedrine\/\" target=\"_blank\">ephedrine<\/a>, a sympathomimetic amine.<\/p>\n<p>It is currently illegal to sell\u00a0ephedra and\/or ephedrine alkaloids\u00a0as dietary supplements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An herb used in traditional Chinese medicine as a treatment for respiratory illnesses (asthma, colds) and hay fever.\u00a0 Known as &#8220;Ma Huang,&#8221; ephedra was once a common ingredient [&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":[356,395,397,626,911,985],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"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=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}