Chenopodium Oil

#### Chenopodium Ambrosioides. This plant is closely related to the parent plant of "American wormseed oil". The latter is distilled from **Chenopodium Ambrosioides**, var. anthelminthicum. See **Wormseed Oil,**** ****American**. This oil is by far the most important of the two. **Chenopodium**** ****Ambrosioides**** **is a plant similar to the American wormwood. It grows wild in Brazil and Mexico and it is cultivated in Brazil, India, and Indonesia. Smaller quantities are harvested in France, Central and Eastern Europe. The essential oil is steam distilled from the dried plant which is harvested just before the flowerbuds open. At that moment the essential oil will have the highest content of **Ascaridol**** **and related therapeutic ingredients. The oil is used exclusively in medicine as a specific anthelminthicum (worm exterminator). Since the oil has no application in perfumery or flavor work, it will not be described in detail here. The oil is, like American wormseed oil, toxic and hazardous to administrate without the advice of a physician. The above brief description of **Chenopodium Oil **was adopted in this work exclusively to enlighten the subject of **Wormwood**** **oil and to prevent confusion with this oil. See monograph on **Wormwood Oil.**