Plant Details

Accepted name:: Carthamus tinctorius L. [Asteraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
aginishika	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
agni-sikha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
agnishikha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
agnisikha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
alazor	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
alizeti ya miba	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
american saffron	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
araniyakukampam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
aspir	Other	Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997)
aspur	Other	Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997)
ayattira	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ayattiracceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
azafran	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
azafrán bastardo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
açaflor	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
açafroa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
açafrão-bastardo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
baharman	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
barre	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
bastard saffron	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
bastard safron	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
beni-bana	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
benibana	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
biri	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
cantirikam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cartamo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
carthame	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
carthame des teinturiers	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
carthami flos	Pharmaceutical	European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012) Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
carthami oleum	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
carthami oleum raffinatum	Pharmaceutical	European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012)
carthami tinctorii flos extractum spissum	Pharmaceutical	Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn (DKRI, 2017)
carthamus yellow	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018)
centirikkam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
centirukkam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
centirukku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
centurakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
centurukkai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
centurukkam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
centurukku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chendurakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
chendurukam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chenurakam	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
chôm pu	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
cilacayacceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cilacayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cusumbha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cártamo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
dok kham	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
dum gur gum	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
dyer s-saffron	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dyer's saffron	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
dyer's-saffron	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
ehreiz	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
ekstrak kental bunga kesumba	Other	Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn (DKRI, 2017)
esfer	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
fake saffron	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
falscher safran	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
false saffron	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
flos carthami	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
flos carthami tinctorii	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
färber-saflor	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
färberdistel	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
golrang	Other	Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013) Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
gramyakunkuma	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
hab qurtum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
hong hoa	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
hong hua	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
hong lan hua	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
hong-hua	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
honghua	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
honghuazi	Other	Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
hsu pan	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
huang hua	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
hung hua	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
hung-hua	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
hungarian saffron	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
hónghuā	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
hồng hoa	Other	Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
ik-kot	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
indian saffl ower	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
irattakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
iskkot	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
kadaya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kafishah	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kajirah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kajireh	Other	Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
kamalottam	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kamalottara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kamalottaram	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kamlottama	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kanar	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kar	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kar ke bijun ki giri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kar; karar-ke-bij	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karadayi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karadi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karar	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
karar-ke-bij	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kararhi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kardai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kardi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karha	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
karizeh	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
karrah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kartamu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
kasakdanah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kasdi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kasube	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kasubha	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kasumba	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kazhirah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kazirah	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kazirrha	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kembang pulu	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kentakakkoli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kentakakkolicceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kesumba	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kham	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kham foi	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kham yong	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
khasakdana	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
khasakdanah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khazirah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khoinbo	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kooshumba chettu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
koosumbha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kouranka	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kucumpa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kudaya	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kukkutashikha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kuntumanikkacceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuntumanikkam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kurdee	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kurdi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kurtam	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kurthum, gurdum, a/osfur, gortum	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kurtum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusam	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kusamba	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusambabijam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusambe	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusambi-bija	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusamphui	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kusamse	Other	Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
kusbo	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kushibe	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kushumba	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kushumba-virai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kushumbha	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kusibe	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusmbe chettu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kussum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kussum kamalottara	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kusube	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusube enne kaalu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusubeegida	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusubi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kusum phool	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
kusuma	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kusuma chettu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusumba	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kusumba-vittulu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusumbai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusumbar	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusumbavirai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusumbe	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusumbha	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
kusumbhah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusumbhi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusume	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusume kaalu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusumphul	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kuyimpu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kāfshe	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
kāfsheh	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
lago	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
ldum gur gum	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
le brgan rtsi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
le ra na tsi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
lohita	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
maghz tukhm qurtum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
maghz-i-qurtum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
maharajana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
muasfir	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
osforr	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
padmottara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
paicacattumpili	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
paicacattumpilicceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
papaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
pita	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
pungh	Other	Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014)
qirtum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
qortom	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
qurtum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
qurtum or qirtum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
rakta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
refined safflower oil	Other	British Pharmacopoeia 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014)
roghan-i-qurtum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
roghan-i-usfar	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
rum	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
sabdyrajan	Other	Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
sadhi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
saf	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
saff-fl ower	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
saffl ower	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
safflower	Other	Healing Potential of Med. Pl., Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2000) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pl. Meds for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000) Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
safflower flower	Other	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008) British Pharmacopoeia 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012)
safflower oil	Other	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
safflower oil (unhydrogenated)	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
safflower oil, refined	Other	European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012)
saffron	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
saffron thistle	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
safl or	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
saflor	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
safran bâtard	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
sanfraz	Other	Herbal Market of Cyprus (Karousou & Deirmentzoglou, 2011)
sendoorkum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sendurakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
sendurgam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sendurkam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sendurukkai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
senturakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
shawrina	Other	Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
shumba	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
staff-flower	Other	Wild Med. Pl. Jordan (Al-Qura'n, 2009)
suf, yahiya-suf, sufi, borda	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
sufir	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
sáfrányos szeklice	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
tukhm kar	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tukhme qartum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tumpuravali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
usfar	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
usfur	Other	Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
vahinshikhaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
vanishikha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vasraranjana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vasrsranjana	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
vastraranjaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
wild saffron	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
zafaran	Other	Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
za’afran	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
احريض	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
رفصع	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
قرطم	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
کافشه	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
گلرنگ	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
ལྡུམ་གུར་གུམ།	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
‫عصفر‬	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)
コウカ	Other	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019)
紅花	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
红花	Other	Consv. of Endangered Med. Pl. in Arid Desert Region (Lang et al., 2017) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
红花籽	Other	Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
flower	dried flower	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
flower		British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014)
fresh flower		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
Seed, Flower		Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002)
flower	dried flower	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Seed		Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000)
seed	refined fixed seed oil	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016)
Seed		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
flower		Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Flower, Seeds		Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014)
Seeds		Pl. Meds for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018)
inﬂorescences		Herbal Market of Cyprus (Karousou & Deirmentzoglou, 2011)
Seeds, oil		Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tubular flower	dried tubular flower	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
flowers		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Flower		Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
Leaf, flower, seed, root		Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
Leaves		Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
flower, leaves	oil	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
flower, seed		Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
	oil	WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
corolla, petals		Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018)
seed		U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020)
flowers		Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn (DKRI, 2017)
flower	tubulous flower	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019)
flower		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
flower, seed, seed oil		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
flower	dried flower	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
Flowers		Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
Flower		Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
flower	dried flower	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
flower	dried flower	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008)
whole plant	oil	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
seed	oil	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008)
flower	dried flower	European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007)
flower	flower, unprocessed or pigment removed and pressed	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 15th edn. (2006)
flower	flowers	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
leaf, root		Wild Med. Pl. Jordan (Al-Qura'n, 2009)
Fruit (Seed)		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
flower		Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
flower		Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012)
flower	Dried flower	European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012)
seed	refined fixed oil yielded by the seed	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013)
flower		Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)
tubulous flower		Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 5 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Calcitrapa tinctoria (L.) Röhl. Deutschl. Fl., ed. 2, 2: 436 (1813).
Carduus tinctorius (L.) Falk Beytr. Topogr. Kenntn. Russ. Reiches 2: 237 (1786).
Carthamus glaber Burm.f. in N.L.Burman, Fl. Ind.: 23 (1768).
Carthamus tinctorius var. spinosus Kitam. Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 26: 140 (1975).
Centaurea carthamus E.H.L.Krause in J.W.Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. Abbild., ed. 2. 14: 20 (1906).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Carthamus tincorius Linn.	Consv. of Endangered Med. Pl. in Arid Desert Region (Lang et al., 2017)
Carthamus tinctorius	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008) Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000) Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014) Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Carthamus tinctorius L.	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008) British Pharmacopoeia 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) Checklist of Korean Cult. Plants (Mun-Chan et al., 1986) Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012) Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn (DKRI, 2017) Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994) Healing Potential of Med. Pl., Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2000) Herbal Market of Cyprus (Karousou & Deirmentzoglou, 2011) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017) Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. Meds for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000) Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023) Wild Med. Pl. Jordan (Al-Qura'n, 2009) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Carthamus tinctorius Lin.	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
Carthamus tinctorius Linn.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
Carthamus tinctorius Linne	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008)
Carthamus tinctorius Linné	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
Cartharmus tinctorius Linn	Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)

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