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.
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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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Hypotensive	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hypothermic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	3	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	9	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile	3	J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Irritant	6	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative	4	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative?	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Lipolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lithogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Metal-Chelator	1	McEvily, A.J., Iyengar, R., and Gross, A.T. Inhibition of Polyphenol Oxidase by Phenolic Compounds. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.25.
Mucogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Mucolytic	1	Martindale's 28th