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
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.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiseborrheic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic	8	Martindale's 28th
Antiserotonin	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antishingles	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antisickling	1	Planta Medica, 56(6): 681, 1990.
Antispasmodic	7	Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Antistaphylococcic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antistress	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antisyndrome-X	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antitartar	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antithrombic	1	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Antitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitubercular	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor	8	Simon, P.W. Carrots and Other Horticultural Crops as a Source of Provitamin A Carotenes. HortScience, 25(12): 1495, 1990.
Antitumor (Breast)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (CNS)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Colon)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *