Plant Calendula officinalis (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Calendula; Pot-Marigold

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
HELIANTRIOL-F	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INULIN	19	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISORHAMNETIN-3-GLUCOSIDE	1	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISORHAMNETIN-3-O-RUTINOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISORHAMNETIN-3-RUTINOSIDE	2	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAPENETRIOL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAURIC-ACID	7	Plant	10000.0	17500.0	1.72	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	100000.0	177500.0	0.60	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Seed	18600.0	32200.0	-0.02	Duke, 1992 *
LONGISPINOGENINE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUP-20(29)-ENE-3BETA,16BETA,28-TRIOL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL	21	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN	15	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN-EPOXIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOXANTHIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LYCOPENE	16	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Flower	not available	6400.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
MANILADIOL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-PENTOSE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Cytoprotective	2	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Deiodinase-Inhibitor	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Demulcent	1	Duke, 1992 *
Dermatitigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic?	3	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	6	Duke, 1992 *
DNA-Active	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Elastase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant	1	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FLavor	3	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
FPTase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fungicide	8	Duke, 1992 *