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Jerusalem oak (also gurglymock, Jerusaly-moke) noun An annual plant (Chenopodium botrys/ambrosioides) having large leaves resembling those of an oak; its seeds (often prepared with molasses) and an oil from the plant are given to children as an intestinal vermifuge.

1939 Hall Coll (Catons Grove TN) Jerusalem oak’s another good thing for worms in children. Take it and stew the seed in honey or molasses and give it to them a small teaspoonful 'fore bedtime. Ibid. (Chestnut Branch NC) They was a kind of weed that they call gurglymock seed ... Some of it grows here. 1968 Wilson Local Plants 323 = Artemisia santonica. A candy made from the roots and sorghum molasses was good for worms. 1982 Powers and Hannah Cataloochee 256 = worm medicine: Get seeds off Jerusaly-moke (Jerusalem oak) plant ... put handful of seeds in pint of molasses on stove and bring to boil, when cool let child eat several spoonfull [sic] once or twice and the worms will be gotten rid of.