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
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.