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Plant Chenopodium ambrosioides (Chenopodiaceae)

Common Names
Epazote; Wormseed
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
TERPINYL-SALICYLATE 0 Plant not available 75.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN 31 Leaf 0.6 4.0 -0.90 Duke, 1992 *
TRIACONTYL-ALCOHOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRIMETHYLAMINE 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
UREASE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID 24 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
WATER 0 Leaf not available 855000.0 0.24 Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
FLavor 8 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 7 Duke, 1992 *
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 1 Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective 1 Duke, 1992 *
GST-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hemopoietic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatocarcinogenic 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Hepatoprotective 2 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoregenerative 1 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Hepatotoxic 2 Martindale's 29th
Hepatotropic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide 5 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Herpetifuge 1 Duke, 1992 *
Histaminic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hydrocholerectic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypertensive 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypocholesterolemic 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipidemic 2 Duke, 1992 *