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
PYROGALLOL-TANNIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RESIN	0	Flower	not available	34000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUBIXANTHIN	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLIC-ACID	34	Plant	not available	0.3	-0.73	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONOSIDES	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMAST-7-EN-3-BETA-OL	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTANOL	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL	12	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGIC-ACID	6	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Leaf	not available	64500.0	-0.56	Duke, 1992 *
TARAX-20-ENE-3BETA,16BETA,22ALPHA-TRIOL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAX-20-ENE-3BETA,16BETA,30-TRIOL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXASTEROL	2	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-8,TRANS-10,CIS-12-OCTADECATRIENIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UBIQUINONE	8	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
URONIC-ACID	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
URSA-12-ENE-3BETA,16BETA,21-TRIOL	0	Plant	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
Antiasthmatic	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiatherogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	10	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	18	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	7	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Bladder)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	3	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Prostate)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticapillary-Fragility	1	Merck 7th Ed.
Anticarcinogenic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	1	Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticariogenic	4	Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticataract	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.