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
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Flower	1330.0	3100.0	0.12	Duke, 1992 *
AUROCHROME	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AUROXANTHIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BREIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	not available	30400.0	0.82	Duke, 1992 *
CALENDINE	0	Flower	not available	100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALENDOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALENDRIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALENDULADIOL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALENDULOSIDES	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTANOL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAROTENOIDS	0	Flower	not available	30000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CERYL-ALCOHOL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLEST-7-EN-3-BETA-OL	0	Sprout Seedling	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
Antifertility	4	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antigallstone	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric	1	Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antigonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	3	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihematuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	2	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhagic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.