Meanings
nounma huang (uncountable)
- uncountableAny of various plants of the Ephedra genus, especially Ephedra sinica, used in traditional Chinese medicine.
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.
2003, Samuel H. Barondes, chapter 5, in Better than Prozac, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 63
Origin
From Mandarin 麻黃／麻黄 (máhuáng).
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