qualities. When combined and reduced through electro-chemical reduction in conjunction with each other ephedra and calamus or sassafras alone produces 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine, MDMA or Ecstasy . Ephedra reduced alone produces N-a-dimethyl-phenethylamine or crystal meth . Ephedra aphylla  growing in Wadi Degla, Egypt (29.9386°N, 31.3665°E) [Moshira Hassan, 2008]. The calamus plant is depicted