Preparation
highKing's gives tincture of calendula, explicitly synonymized with tincture of marigold, as calendula powder macerated and percolated with alcohol.
Found in the Hermetikon archive
Calendula / Marigold
Calendula officinalis
Calendula / Marigold appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.
- Risk
- moderate
- Books
- 21
- Contexts
- 5
- Mentions
- 105
Archive Profile
Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.
Herb identity
- Common name
- calendula
- Latin name
- Calendula officinalis(candidate)
- Identity note
- Marigold can also refer to Tagetes species; historical sources often use marigold.
Safety
moderate
Asteraceae allergy and pregnancy caution are relevant for medicinal use.
Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.
- EMA HMPC: Asteraceae allergy and pregnancy caution are relevant for medicinal use.
Aliases
calendulaCalendula officinalismarigoldmarigolds
Calendula / Marigold in Historical Sources
Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.
Hermetikon's curated reading of Calendula / Marigold (Calendula officinalis) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 2 preparation or ritual-use entries. The strongest recurring contexts are preparations, ritual uses, and astrology. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.
Astrology
highAgrippa assigns marigold to the Sun in a planetary plant list, giving calendula-marigold a clear occult correspondence when the historical name is marigold.
Ritual
mediumFrazer records marigold garlands among the late flowers twined around tombstones on All Souls' Eve, a death-ritual context rather than a remedy.
The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1911
§ 6. Readjustment of Egyptian Festivals.
Preparations and ritual uses
Tincture of calendula
highKing's prepares tincture of calendula, also called tincture of marigold, from calendula powder and alcohol by maceration and percolation.
All Souls' garlands
mediumFrazer records marigold flowers twined into grave garlands on All Souls' Eve with other late-season blooms.
The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1911
§ 6. Readjustment of Egyptian Festivals.
Calendula / Marigold Archive Contexts
Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.
Medicine
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: The Family Herbal.
Matched as marigold; high confidence.
Astrology
7 passages across 7 books; strongest source: Anatomy of Melancholy.
Matched as marigold; high confidence.
Folk magic
2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: The Golden Bough.
Matched as marigold; high confidence.
Preparation
3 passages across 3 books; strongest source: King's American Dispensatory.
Matched as calendula; high confidence.
Safety
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Culpeper's Complete Herbal.
Matched as marigolds; high confidence.
Calendula / Marigold Cited Excerpts
Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper
1653
"... Tormentil, Peony, the leaves of Dittany, Bay-berries, Juniper-berries, of each half an ounce, the flowers of Rosemary, Marigolds, Clove Gilliflowers, the tops of Saint John’s Wort, Nutmegs, Saffron, of each three drams, the Roots of Gentian, Zedoary, Ginger, Mace, Myrrh, the leaves of Scabious, Devil’s-bit, Carduus, of each two drams, Cloves, Opium, of each a dram, Malaga Wine as much as is sufficient, with their treble weight in Honey, mix them according to art. *Culpeper.*] The receipt is a pretty cordial, resists the pestilence, and is a good antidote in ..."
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Safetyalias: marigoldshigh confidence
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter
1854
"... ounces of water, of which the dose is a teaspoonful. 3 or 4 times a day. TINCTURA CALENDUL.ffl (U. S. P.)— TINCTURE OF CALENDULA. Synonym: Tincture of marigold. Preparation. — "Calendula, in No. 20 powder, two hundred grammes (200 Gm.) [7ozs. av.,24 grs.]; alcohol, a suflicient quantity to make one thousand cubic centimeters (1000 Cc.) [33 flg, 391 TTL]. Moisten the powder with two hundred cubic centimeters (200 Cc.) [6 flg, 366 lU] of alcohol, and macerate for 24 hours; then pack it firmly in a cylindrical percolator, and gradually jjour alcohol upon it, until ..."
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Preparationalias: calendulahigh confidence
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
1533
"...t-wort. And to the Planets these, viz. : To Saturn, sengreen; to Jupiter, agrimony; to Mars, sulphur- wort; to the Sun, marigold; to Venus, wound- wort; to Mercury, mullein; to the Moon, peony. But Hermes, whom Albertus follows, distributes to the Planets these, viz. : To Saturn, the daffodil; to Jupiter, henbane; to Mars, rib-wort; to the Sun, knot-grass; to Venus, vervain; to Mercury, cinque-foil; to the Moon, goose-foot. We also know by experience that asparagus is under Aries, and garden basil under Scorpio; for of the shavings of ram'shorn, sowed, comes for..."
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Preparationalias: marigoldhigh confidence
The Family Herbal
John Hill
1755
"...g, moderately broad, and rounded at the ends, and of a dusky green. The flowers are yellow and large; they resemble the marigold; it is singular that there stand some leaves under this flower disposed in rays like a star; the root is long. The fresh leaves are used; and that only externally. Bruised, and laid on as a pultice, they are a cure for buboes, and other hard swellings. The plant is called also ingunialis, from its peculiar effect in dissipating buboes of the groin. ### THE STAR THISTLE. *Calcitrapa.* A WILD plant on our heaths, but not very common. It ..."
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Medicinealias: marigoldhigh confidence
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer
1911
"...he mounds, sprinkling a layer of charcoal on the bare earth, and marking out patterns on it in red service-berries. The marigold, too, is still in bloom at that season in cottage gardens, and garlands of its orange blooms, mingled with other late flowers left by the departing summer, are twined about the grey mossgrown tombstones. The basin of holy water is filled with fresh water and a branch of box-wood put into it; for box-wood in the popular mind is associated with death and the dead. On the eve of All Souls' Day the people begin to visit the graves and to o..."
§ 6. Readjustment of Egyptian Festivals.Open in Reader
Preparationalias: marigoldhigh confidence
Books Mentioning Calendula / Marigold
Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper | 1653
marigoldsmarigoldcalendula
38 mentionscited
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854
calendulamarigold
10 mentionscited
The Family Herbal
John Hill | 1755
marigoldcalendulamarigolds
8 mentionscited
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1906
marigoldmarigolds
8 mentions
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim | 1533
marigold
4 mentionscited
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1890
marigold
4 mentions
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted
Gustavus Hindman Miller | 1901
marigoldmarigolds
4 mentions
Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton | 1621
marigold
4 mentions
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
E. Cobham Brewer | 1870
marigold
4 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1911
marigold
3 mentionscited
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1906
marigold
3 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1913
marigolds
2 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1912
marigold
2 mentions
Strange Survivals
Sabine Baring-Gould | 1892
marigold
2 mentions
The Complete Book of Fortune
Anonymous | 1930
marigold
2 mentions
Psychic Self-Defense
Dion Fortune (Violet Mary Firth) | 1930
marigolds
2 mentions
Liber 777
Aleister Crowley | 1909
marigold
1 mention
The Magus (Vol 1)
Francis Barrett | 1801
marigold
1 mention
The Influence of the Stars
Rosa Baughan | 1880
marigold
1 mention
Illustration of the Occult Sciences
Ebenezer Sibly | 1784
marigolds
1 mention
Signs, Omens and Superstitions
George Lyman Kittredge | 1915
marigolds
1 mention