Plant Details

Accepted name:: Parthenium hysterophorus L. [Asteraceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
absinthe marron	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
absynthe batarde	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
alta misa del ca mpo	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
altamesa	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
altamisa	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
altamisa a marga	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
altamisa del bordo	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
artemisilla	Other	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
baille lame	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
balai amer	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
bitter-broom	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
chatak chandni	Other	Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017)
chu purujume	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
congress gida	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
congress grass	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
congress hullu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
congress kale	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
congress-gawat	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
congress-ghas	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
congresspoolu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
escoba amarga	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
escoba de puerco	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
escobita amarga	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
falsa altamisa	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
feuilles bouton	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
fever bush	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
friega platos	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
gajar gavat	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gajar ghas	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gazar ghas	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
hierba amargosa	Other	Pl. Med. de Matamba y Piñonal, Mexico (Escamilla et al., 2015)
jhilmil	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
machhipatri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
parthene multifide	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
parthenium	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
parthenium gida	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pichhi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
pitchi genjayi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pitchi maachi pathre	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
santa maria	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
santa maria feverfew	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
thurike gida	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
té de la hormiga	Other	Med. Pl. by Health Professionals, Mexico (Alonso-Castro et al., 2017)
whitehead	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
wild carrot weed	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
yerba amarga	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
yerba de la oveja	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
yerba de la víbora	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Whole plant		Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017)
whole plant		Pl. Med. de Matamba y Piñonal, Mexico (Escamilla et al., 2015)
whole plant		Med. Pl. by Health Professionals, Mexico (Alonso-Castro et al., 2017)
leaves		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
aerial parts, leaf, flowers, root	dried aerial parts, dried leaf, fresh root	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 4 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Argyrochaeta bipinnatifida Cav. Icon. 4: 54 (1798).
Echetrosis pentasperma Phil. Anales Univ. Chile 43: 129 (1873).
Parthenium lobatum Buckley Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 13: 457 (1861 publ. 1862).
Parthenium pinnatifidum Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 4: 278 (1812).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Parthenium histerophurous Lin.	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
Parthenium hysterophorus	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Pl. Med. de Matamba y Piñonal, Mexico (Escamilla et al., 2015) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Parthenium hysterophorus L.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009) Med. Pl. by Health Professionals, Mexico (Alonso-Castro et al., 2017) Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017) Med. Pl. of Brazil (Mors et al., 2000) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) SOTWP 2016: Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2015) SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. & Fungi Project (2015) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Parthenium hysterophorus Linn.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)

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