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
PECTOLINARIGENIN	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTANAL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENETHYL-ALCOHOL	6	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN	44	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUBIXANTHIN	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXANTHIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-BETA-DAMASCENONE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-ROSE-OXIDE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-TRANS-FARNESOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOPHYLL	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZEAXANTHIN	5	Fruit	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 *