Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Ethnobotanical Plant Chenopodium ambrosioides

Common Name
Semin Contra, Feuilles A Vers, Apasote, Meksika Cayi, Simon Contegras, Paico, L., Semen Contra, Chenopode, Herbe A Vers, Pazote

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Activity Country/Region Reference
Ache(Stomach) Haiti Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Amebiasis Elsewhere Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Amebiasis Elsewhere *
Amebiasis Elsewhere *
Amebiasis Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Amenorrhea Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Analgesic China ANON. 1974. A barefoot doctor's manual. DHEW Publication No. (NIH): 75-695.
Anemia Colombia Altschul, Siri Von Reis. 1973. Drugs and foods from little-known plants. Harvard Univ. Press
Ankylostomiasis *
Anodyne US Krochmal, Arnold and Connie. 1973. A guide to the medicinal plants of the United States. Quadrangle/The N.Y. Times Book Co.
Anthelminthic Elsewhere Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Antiseptic Haiti Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Arthritis China Leung, Albert Y. 1980. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients. John Wiley and Sons, N.Y.
Ascaricide Elsewhere *
Asthma Panama Gupta, M.P., et al. 1979. Ethnopharmacognostic observations on Panamanian medicinal plants. Part I. Quarterly journal of crude drug research 17(3-4):115-130.
Asthma Trinidad *
Asthma Elsewhere *
Asthma Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Asthma Dominican Republic Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Asthma Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.