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
Antileukoplakic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antilupus	1	Martindale's 28th
AntiLyme	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimaculitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimastitic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimeasles	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antimelanomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMeniere's	1	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antimenopausal	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimenorrhagic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic (Stomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimigraine	3	Martindale's 29th
Antimitotic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antimutagenic	6	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antimyocarditic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineoplastic	1	Duke, 1992 *