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Dysphania ambrosioides, Epazote

Epazote, formerly Chenopodium ambrosioides, known as wormseed, Jesuit's tea, Mexican-tea, payqu (paico), Dysphania ambrosioides, or herba sancti Mariæ, is an annual or short-lived perennial herb native to Central America, South America, and southern Mexico.

Description

D. ambrosioides is an annual or short-lived perennial plant (herb), growing to 1.2 m (3.9 ft) tall, irregularly branched, with oblong-lanceolate leaves up to 12 cm (4.7 in) long. The flowers are small and green, produced in a branched panicle at the apex of the stem.

Uses

  • D. ambrosioides is used as a leaf vegetable, herb, and herbal tea for its pungent flavor.
  • It is often used as an herb in white fried rice and an important ingredient for making the green salsa for chilaquiles.
  • D. ambrosioides was used as an anthelmintic to treat ascarids and hookworms in humans, cats, dogs, horses, and pigs.[clarification needed]
  • Chenopodium is still used to treat worm infections in humans in many countries.
  • In a few areas in Latin America, the plant also is used to treat worm infections in livestock.
  • D. ambrosioides is believed to prevent flatulence. It has also been used for amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, malaria, chorea, the now discredited diagnosis of hysteria, catarrh, and asthma.[clarification needed]

Common name

  • English - Epazote
  • Hindi - सुगंध वस्तूका
  • Kannada - ಕಡವೊಮ


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