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
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	11	Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	4	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Pancreas)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticardiospasmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	1	Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticarpal-Tunnel	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticervicaldysplasic	3	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.