Plant Tagetes minuta (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Wild Marigold; Aztec Marigold; Dwarf Marigold; Mexican Marigold; Muster John Henry; Stinking-Roger

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
LIMONENE	60	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Flower Essent. Oil	166300.0	353200.0	0.75	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Fruit Essent. Oil	213100.0	353200.0	-0.33	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	200000.0	0.21	Zygadlo, J. S., Guzman, C. A., Grosso, N. R. 1994. Antifungal Properties of the Leaf Oils of Tagetes Minuta L. and T. filifolia Lag. J. Essent. Oil Res. 6 6: 617-621. Cat Quim Org Fac Cien Exact Univ Nacion Cordoba Cordoba 5000 Argentina.
LIMONENE	60	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	83000.0	-0.07	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL-MONOXIDE	0	Plant	93.0	250.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL-MONOXIDE	0	Plant	93.0	250.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINALYL-ACETATE	7	Plant	34.0	125.0	-0.52	Duke, 1992 *
MONOMETHYLFUMARATE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCIMENE	2	Plant	280.0	1500.0	0.40	Duke, 1992 *
OCIMENONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
OCTAN-1-AL	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	6200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-1-OL	0	Flower Essent. Oil	not available	1900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-1-OL	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	2600.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed Oil	not available	16.0	-1.68	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Flower Essent. Oil	not available	100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed Oil	not available	216400.0	0.23	Duke, 1992 *
PATULETIN	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PATULETIN	2	Shoot	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
Cancer-Preventive	12	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	9	Duke, 1992 *
Candidistat	2	Duke, 1992 *
Capillariprotective	1	Merck 11th Edition
Carcinogenic	3	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Carminative	2	Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Caspase-3-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Catabolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cholagogue	2	Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cholesterolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cicatrizant	1	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Stimulant	5	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Toxic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Coleoptophile	1	Duke, 1992 *
COMT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Convulsant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Copper-Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *