Earliest evidence of Ephedra use found in 15,000-year-old Moroccan burial
An international group of researchers led by the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria have uncovered the earliest ...
Interesting Engineering9 天
Morocco’s 15,000-year-old herbs reveal surprising Stone Age healing practices
Scientists have uncovered 15,000-year-old medicinal herbs, shedding light on Stone Age health practices that echo today’s ...
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Evidence of ancient speed freaks found in Pleistocene burial cave
Archaeologists exploring an ancient burial cave in northern Morrocco were surprised to find 15,000-year-old evidence of drug ...
IFLScience7 天
A Cave In North Africa Holds 15,000-Year-Old Evidence Of Drug Use
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Ancient medicinal plant use revealed in Morocco's prehistoric burial rituals
Ephedra, an ancient medicinal plant, was used in funerary rituals and possibly for therapeutic purposes by prehistoric ...
BBC2 年
Meth and heroin fuel Afghanistan drugs boom
The rise of meth has been fuelled by a discovery that ephedra - a common, wild herb known locally as "oman" - can be used to make one of the drug's key ingredients: ephedrine. At a bazaar deep in ...
WebMD10 年
Beware Untested Diet Pills
In that regard, usnic acid is not unlike ephedra, another weight-loss pill that is sold online and in many thousands of neighborhood health-food and drugstores. Ephedra has been implicated in the ...