Plant Rosa damascena (Rosaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Damask Rose

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
GERANIAL	13	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL	35	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETATE	5	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-PROPIONATE	2	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERMACRENE-D	2	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTANAL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTANOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXANOL	3	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXYL-ACETATE	1	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-O-BETA-GALACTOPYRANOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-O-BETA-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LYCOPENE	16	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-EUGENOL	20	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-HEPTENONE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NERAL	4	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEROL	10	Essential Oil	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
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Acaricide	3	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
AChE-Inhibitor	1	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Adrenergic	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	6	Shimizu, M., Ito, T., Terashima, S., Hayashi, T., Arisawa, M., Morita, N., Kurokawa, S., Ito, K., and Hashimoto, Y. 1984. Inhibition of Lens Aldose Reductase by Flavonoids. Phytochemistry, 23: 1885-1888.
Allelochemic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Allelopathic	2	Wright,C.W.(Ed)2002.Medicinal&Aromatic Plants-Industrial Profiles.Artemisia.344pp.Maffei,M.(Ed)2002.Vetiveria.The Genus Vetiveria.Taylor&Francis.NY,NY.191pp.Southwell,I.,Lowe,R.(Eds)1999.Tea Tree.The Genus Melaleuca.Harwood Acad.Pub.Amsterdam,Netherlands.
Allergenic	14	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anesthetic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anhydrotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Anorexic	1	Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic	1	Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus.
Antiacetylcholinesterase	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacne	2	Duke, 1992 *