ma huang

See also: mǎhuáng

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 麻黃／麻黄 (máhuáng).

Noun

ma huang (uncountable)

1. Any of various plants of the Ephedra genus, especially Ephedra sinica, used in traditional Chinese medicine.
   • 2003, Samuel H. Barondes, chapter 5, in Better than Prozac, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 63:

     The active ingredients of ma huang had already been identified by the end of the nineteenth century by Japanese and German scientists, who named them ephedrine and pseudoephedrine.

See also

• ephedrine
• pseudoephedrine

Anagrams

• Maughan