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.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antihemorrhoidal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatoadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic	9	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	7	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	5	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihydrophobic	1	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihypercholesterolemic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperglycemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihyperkinetic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipidemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive	5	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antihyperthyroid	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiichthyosic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiimplantation	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiinfarctal	1	Soumyanath, A. Ed. 2006. Traditional Medicines for Modern Times - Antidiabetic Plants. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Boca Raton, FL. 314 pp.
Antiinfertility	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinflammatory	21	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.