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
Antidermatitic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antidermatotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiabetic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiarrheic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidote (Aluminum)	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antidote (Cadmium)	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Lead)	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Paraquat)	1	Martindale's 28th
Antidysenteric	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiEBV	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antieczemic	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiedemic	11	Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antielastase	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiencephalitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiendometriotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antierythemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifatigue	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antifeedant	6	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.