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Plant Rosa centifolia (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Cabbage Rose
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PHENETHYL-ALCOHOL 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CITRAL 53 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLOL 15 Essential Oil not available 1200.0 -0.79 Duke, 1992 *
CYANIN 5 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EO 0 Flower not available 2000.0 -0.36 Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL 76 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GERANIC-ACID 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL 35 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL-ALDEHYDE 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
L-LINALOL 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID 15 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
METHIONINE-SULFOXIDE 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE 22 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NEROL 10 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN 24 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN 44 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RESIN 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Antiatheromic 1 Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990.
Antiatherosclerotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial 11 Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic 1 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Anticancer 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Pancreas) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic 1 Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticataract 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticonvulsant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antidiabetic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antidiarrheic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiedemic 2 Phytotherapy Research, 4: 95.
Antienteritic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antifeedant 3 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.