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
CHOLESTANOL	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLESTEROL	1	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSANTHEMAXANTHIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-FLAVOXANTHIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-LUTEOXANTHIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITROXANTHIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIMORPHECOLIC-ACID	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Flower	200.0	4000.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
ERYTHRODIOL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FARADIOL	2	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	260000.0	450000.0	0.97	Duke, 1992 *
FLAVOCHROME	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FLAVOCHROME	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FLAVONOIDS	0	Flower	3300.0	8000.0	-0.88	Duke, 1992 *
FLAVOXANTHIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FUCOSTANOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOSE	1	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TOCOPHEROL	14	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GENTISIC-ACID	8	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HELIANTRIOL-C	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
Fungistat	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Gastroprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Gastrostimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemopoietic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	2	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hepatocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	2	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	12	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Histamine-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	2	Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.
Hypercholesterolemic	3	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypocholesterolemic	12	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic	6	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipidemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	6	Duke, 1992 *