Plant Carthamus tinctorius (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Safflower

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
CARYOPHYLLENE-EPOXIDE	6	Leaf	not available	1.1	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Flower	0.4	3.1	0.08	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Flower	0.4	2.6	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Flower	20.0	26.0	1.86	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOSATIVENE	0	Bud	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-4,6-DIYN-1-OL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-4,6-DIYN-1-YL-3-METHYLBUTYRATE	0	Flower	0.7	12.2	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-4,6-DIYN-1-YL-3-METHYLBUTYRATE	0	Leaf	not available	0.6	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECANAL	0	Flower	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECANAL	0	Leaf	not available	0.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
DECANE	0	Bud	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-CADINENE	9	Flower	0.6	0.8	-1.08	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-CADINENE	9	Leaf	not available	0.1	-0.46	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROACTINIDIOLIDE	0	Flower	0.0	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-ACETATE	6	Flower	0.0	0.1	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYLBENZENE	0	Flower	0.4	0.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Flower	8820.0	63000.0	0.08	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Plant	16000.0	51000.0	-0.01	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	200000.0	626000.0	1.90	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Flower	not available	93000.0	-0.47	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.

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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
Lithogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lubricant	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Memorigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Metastatic	1	Science News, 146: 421.
Mosquitocide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Motor-Depressant	1	Buchbauer et al, e.g.Buchbauer et al,1993.Therapeutic properties of essential oils and fragrances. Chap.12 in Teranishi,R, Buttery,R.G and Sugisawa,H. Eds. Bioactive Volatile Compounds from Plants. ACS Symposium Series 525. Amer. Chem. Soc., Washington DC
Mucogenic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Mucolytic	1	Martindale's 28th
Myorelaxant	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Narcotic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Natriuretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	8	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Nephrotoxic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Neuroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotransmitter	1	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	1	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *