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
Myorelaxant	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Natriuretic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	3	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
NEP-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Neuroprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	1	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	4	Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Oviposition-Stimulant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ovulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Percutaneostimulant	1	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery	2	Merck 11th Edition
Pesticide	18	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *