Brigham Tea is a blood purifier and detoxifier. Brigham Tea is also considered an excellent demulcent for colds, and is used to balance the pH of the body. High in copper and iron, Brigham Tea is good for anemia.

Brigham Tea is useful in the treatment of asthma, bronchitis, coughs, and other congestive conditions. A very strong stimulant, it will exhaust the adrenals of a person whose Yin is in constitution, or who is low of energy and exhausted. This herb is also beneficial for colds, flu, and fevers without sweating.

The isolated alkaloid, ephedrine, has been hailed as the cure for asthma because it relaxes the bronchial airways; however, this was shown to also greatly increase the blood pressure. If the whole plant is used, as with herbalists, then six other alkaloids are present, and one of them, pseudoephedrine, actually reduces the heart rate and lowers the blood pressure. In China, the whole plant has been used for thousands of years with no reported undesirable side-effects from proper administration of the plant. The whole plant is used to treat asthma, hayfever, and other allergies for the first stages of a cold or influenza, for arthritis, and for fluid retention.

Brigham Tea is also known by several other names. If it is sourced in Asia, then it is called by its Chinese name, Ma-Huang. Collected from harvests in the Southwest deserts of the United States, it is called Mormon tea or Brigham tea. Ma-Huang is first mentioned in the classic Chinese herbal of the Divine Plowman Emperor, Shen-Nong's Ben Cao Jing, which survives a list of 365 herbs from the first century A.D., and is the basis of the modern Chinese materia medica.

CAUTION: Ephedra should be avoided by those with severe hypertension, glaucoma, hyperthyroidism, prostate enlargement, coronary thrombosis, and by anyone using MAOI anti-depressants.

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