Talk:Dysphania ambrosioides

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[edit] non-contraceptive birth control effect?

I repeat my question from the talk section of the now-redirected article on epazote:
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It say "It is also cited as an antispasmodic and abortifacient - the first birth control pills were derived from research on epazote." I'm a little unclear. I thought the first contraceptive was derived from work on barbasco, a mexican yam. Is the quoted statement incorrect or is it implying that the first birth control pills were simply abortifacients and not, as I understood it, contraceptives?
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Indeed, the article itself references
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_oral_contraceptive_pill> where it says "After three years of extensive botanical research he discovered a much better starting material, the aglycone moiety of the saponin, diosgenin, from inedible Mexican wild yams found in the jungles of Veracruz near Orizaba."
The same article nowhere mentions epazote or ambrosioidies.

And while I'm at it, what's this 'Dysphania ambrosioides'. I know it as Chenopodium ambrosioides, and if you look in the article under the scientific classification is says the genus is Dysphania - but it's a dangling link, not filled out yet - what?!? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Water pepper (talk • contribs) 00:19, 4 June 2008 (UTC)