Plant Chenopodium ambrosioides (Chenopodiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Epazote; Wormseed

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
LEUCINE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MENTHADIENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-SALICYLATE	21	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Leaf	5.0	40.0	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Leaf	365.0	4400.0	3.26	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMOL	0	Plant	730.0	8000.0	1.27	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Leaf	520.0	3585.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Fruit	not available	156000.0	0.62	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Leaf	38000.0	262000.0	0.50	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Leaf	3.0	19.0	-0.09	Duke, 1992 *
SAFROLE	29	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONINS	5	Root	not available	25000.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Leaf	10.0	70.0	-0.63	Duke, 1992 *
SPINASTEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARTARIC-ACID	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINYL-ACETATE	5	Plant	not available	75.0	-1.40	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Bronchoprotectant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bruchifuge	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Bruchiphobe	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Calcium-Antagonist	2	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Channel-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	12	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Candidistat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic	2	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Cardiac	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Cardioprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Carminative	3	Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cholagogue	1	Pharmazie, 46: 156, 1991.
Choleretic	2	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Cholesterolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Circulotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Depressant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Stimulant	2	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
Cold-preventive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.