Plant Details

Accepted name:: Carthamus tinctorius L. [Asteraceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
aginishika	Other	Unani Pharmacop. 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 Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
alazor	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
alizeti ya miba	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
american saffron	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) WHO Monog. 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	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) 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) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
açaflor	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
açafroa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
açafrão-bastardo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
baharman	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
barre	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
bastard saffron	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
bastard safron	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
beni-bana	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
benibana	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
biri	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
cantirikam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cartamo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
carthame	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacop.: Liste A (2000) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
carthame des teinturiers	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
carthami flos	Pharmaceutical	European Pharmacop., 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacop., 7th edn. (2012) Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Japanese Pharmacop., 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacop., 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacop., 17th edn. (2016-2019) Korean Pharmacop., 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacop., 9th edn. (2007) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
carthami oleum	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
carthami oleum raffinatum	Pharmaceutical	European Pharmacop., 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacop., 7th edn. (2012)
carthami tinctorii flos extractum spissum	Pharmaceutical	Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn. (DKRI, 2017)
carthamus tinctorius whole	Other	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024)
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 Monog. 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 Pharmacop. India (2007-2008) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
chendurukam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chenurakam	Other	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
chôm pu	Other	WHO Monog. 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) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
dok kham	Other	WHO Monog. 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 Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
dyer's-saffron	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
e'sfer	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
ehreiz	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
ekstrak kental bunga kesumba	Other	Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn. (DKRI, 2017)
esfer	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
fake saffron	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
falscher safran	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
false saffron	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
flos carthami	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacop. of China (2005) WHO Monog. 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) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
färberdistel	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) 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) Trad. 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)
habb et quirthim	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
hong fah	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
hong hoa	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
hong hua	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) TCM Pl. for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
hong lan hua	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
hong-hua	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
honghua	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Med. Pl. at Markets of Honghe Prefect, SW China (Lee et al., 2008) Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
honghuazi	Other	Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
hsi hung hua	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
hsu pan	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
huang hua	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
huang lan	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
hung hua	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
hung lan hua	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
hung-hua	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
hungarian saffron	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
hónghuā	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
hồng hoa	Other	Pl. & Animal in Trad. Med., Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
idiom in guilan	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
ik-kot	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
indian saffl ower	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
irattakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
iskkot	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
kadaya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kafishah	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kajirah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kajireh	Other	Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
kamalottam	Other	Unani Pharmacop. 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 Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kar	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. 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 Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
karar-ke-bij	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kararhi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
kardai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
kardi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karha	Other	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
karizeh	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
karrah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
kartamu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
kasakdanah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kasdi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
kasube	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kasubha	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kasumba	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kaufsha	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
kazhirah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kazirah	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kazirrha	Other	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
kembang pulu	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kentakakkoli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kentakakkolicceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kesumba	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kham	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kham foi	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kham yong	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
khasakdana	Other	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
khasakdanah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khazirah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khoinbo	Other	WHO Monog. 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 Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kucumpa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kudaya	Other	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
kukkutashikha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. 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 Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
kurtam	Other	Unani Pharmacop. 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 Pharmacop. 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 Pharmacop. 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 Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
kushumba-virai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kushumbha	Other	Unani Pharmacop. 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 Pharmacop. 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 Pharmacop. India (2007-2008) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001) WHO Monog. 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 Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kusuma chettu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusumba	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008) WHO Monog. 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 Pharmacop. 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 Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
kuyimpu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kāfshe	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
kāfsheh	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
lago	Other	WHO Monog. 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 Pharmacop. 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 Pharmacop. 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 Pharmacop. 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 Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
parrot flower	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
pita	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. 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 Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
qortom	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
qurtum	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
qurtum or qirtum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
qushon	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
rakta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
refined safflower oil	Other	British Pharmacop. 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacop. 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 Monog. 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 Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
saffl ower	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
safflor	Other	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
safflower	Other	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) 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 Pharmacop., 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacop., 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacop., 17th edn. (2016-2019) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Korean Pharmacop., 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacop., 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) Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pl. 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) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022) 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 Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
safflower flower	Other	British Pharmacop. 2009, Vol. 4 (2008) British Pharmacop. 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacop. 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) European Pharmacop., 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacop., 7th edn. (2012)
safflower oil	Other	U.S. Pharmacop. USP 32 (2008) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 39 (2016) U.S. Pharmacop. 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 Pharmacop., 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacop., 7th edn. (2012)
saffron	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
saffron thistle	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
safl or	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
saflor	Other	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
safran bâtard	Other	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
safranon	Other	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
safre	Other	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
sai hiong fah	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
sai hong fah	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
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 Pharmacop. 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 Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
shawrina	Other	Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
shumba	Other	Unani Pharmacop. 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 Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
sáfrányos szeklice	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
tokhme-kaficheh	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
tukhm kar	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tukhm-i-kaphah	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
tukhm-i-kaphek	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 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 Monog. 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 Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
vastraranjaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
wild saffron	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
yao hua	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
zafaran	Other	Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
zaffrone	Other	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
za’afran	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
احريض	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
رفصع	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
قرطم	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
کافشه	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
گلرنگ	Other	Trad. 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 Pharmacop., 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacop., 17th edn. (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) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
红花	Other	Consv. of Endangered Med. Pl. in Arid Desert Region (Lang et al., 2017) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) TCM Pl. 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	Pharmacop. of China (2010)
flower		British Pharmacop. 2015, Vol. 4 (2014)
flower	fresh flower	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacop.: 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. Pharmacop. USP 39 (2016)
Seed		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
flower		Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Flower, Seeds		Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014)
Seeds		Pl. 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)
flower		Med. Pl. at Markets of Honghe Prefect, SW China (Lee et al., 2008)
flower	dried tubular flower	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
flower	dried tubular flower	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021)
corolla, petals		Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018)
seed		U.S. Pharmacop. USP 43 (2020)
flowers		Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn. (DKRI, 2017)
flower	tubulous flower	Japanese Pharmacop., 17th edn. (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 Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
Flowers		Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
Flower		Pl. & Animal in Trad. Med., Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
flower	dried flower	Pharmacop. of China (2005)
flower	dried flower	British Pharmacop. 2009, Vol. 4 (2008)
whole plant	oil	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
seed	oil	U.S. Pharmacop. USP 32 (2008)
flower	dried flower	European Pharmacop., 6th edn. (2007)
flower		Japanese Pharmacop., 15th edn. (2006)
flower	flowers	Unani Pharmacop. 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 Pharmacop., 9th edn. (2007)
flower		Japanese Pharmacop., 16th edn. (2012)
seed		European Pharmacop., 7th edn. (2012)
seed	refined fixed oil yielded by the seed	U.S. Pharmacop. USP 37 (2013)
flower		Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)
tubulous flower		Korean Pharmacop., 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) Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) 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) Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Carthamus tinctorius L.	British Pharmacop. 2009, Vol. 4 (2008) British Pharmacop. 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacop. 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) Checklist of Korean Cult. Pl. (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) Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) European Pharmacop., 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacop., 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) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024) 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) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 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. at Markets of Honghe Prefect, SW China (Lee et al., 2008) 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) Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Pl. & Animal in Trad. Med., Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacop.: Liste A (2000) Pl. for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018) 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 Pl. for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022) 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. Pharmacop. USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 39 (2016) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 43 (2020) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2024) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2025) 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 Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
Carthamus tinctorius Linne	Japanese Pharmacop., 17th edn. (2016-2019) Korean Pharmacop., 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 32 (2008)
Carthamus tinctorius Linné	Japanese Pharmacop., 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacop., 16th edn. (2012) Korean Pharmacop., 9th edn. (2007)
Cartharmus tinctorius Linn	Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)

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