Methylephedrine is one of the ephedra alkaloids that is found in varying amounts in different species of the plant genus Ephedra. Methylephedrine is a popular antitussive, bronchodilator, analgesic, antipyretic, and widely used mixed with other drugs in preparations for treatment of the common cold. N-Methylephedrine, its salts, optical isomers, and salts of optical isomers are in FDA list of Exempt chemical mixtures.

Imolamine is a coronary vasodilator, which is used in the treatment of angina pectoris and as a local anesthetic. Imolamine has been shown to produce in animals coronary vasodilation, local anaesthesia, analgesia and a papaverine like action in duodenal preparations. Imolamine increased the tone of uterus and ileum and this was accompanied by a reduction in amplitude of contraction. The response of the stomach tissue to imolamine was similar to that of butalamine and aminophylline, i.e. a relaxant action on smooth muscle. Imolamine has a variable action on tone, producing an increase in ileum and uterus and a decrease in stomach. Imolamine is able to cause severe cytolytic hepatitis.

Picoperine (Coben) is an antitussive agent.

Oxolamine under brand names Symphocal, Perebron is used in some countries as a cough suppressant for the treatment of pharyngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis, bronchiectasis, pertussis. Oxolamine possesses anti-inflammatory activity, which causes a reduction in the irritation of the nervous receptors of the respiratory tract.

Fenoxedil is a quinidine-like agent that has a very strong class I antiarrhythmic effect, to the point that it is now almost abandoned after having given toxicity accidents.

Pirisudanol is the succinic acid ester of pyridoxine (a form of vitamin B6) and of deanol that has been used in Europe in the treatment of mild cognitive impairment as well as fatigue and depression.

Cetiedil is effective potassium channel blocker used as a peripheral vasodilator to treat patients with painful crises in sickle cell anemia and pain in the extremities caused by an arterial disease. Known pharmacological properties of the drug include vascular smooth muscle relaxation, inhibition of phosphodiesterase with the consequent increase in circulating cyclic AMP concentration, blockade of the effect of bradykinin and serotonin, analgesia, inhibition of platelet aggregation and the decrease of plasma and blood viscosity and plasma fibrinogen level. The antisickling effect of cetiedil is explained mainly in the light of the changes it induces in the activities of membrane-bound ATPases and the permeability properties of the erythrocyte membrane to cations and anions.

Amixetrine is a drug that was formerly marketed in France but is now no longer sold. Amixetrine therapeutic functions are: aniinflammatory, anticholinergic, antidepressant, antispasmodic. The urinary metabolites of N-(2-phenyl-2-isoamyloxy) ethyl-pyrrolidine-hydrochloride (amixetrine) studied in man and in the dog demonstrated a comparable mode of transformation of the drugs for both species. In man, as in the dog, the principal metabolite coming from an omega-1-oxidation of the isoamyl chain corresponded to 2-phenyl-2-butoxy-(3-methyl-3-ol)ethyl-pyrrolidine.

Nepinalone is a new alchilaminate derivative of β-tetralone, which possess a non-opioid antitussive activity. Nepinalone racemus exerted a significant antitussive activity and both L- and D-isomers confirmed to possess a significant dose-correlated antitussive effect with better trend of activity for D-isomer, but not statistically significant. It was predicted to act via sigma receptors. Occasionally, episodes of gastric intolerance have been reported and rapidly receded when treatment was stopped. The use of doses higher than those recommended could cause drowsiness.