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
FLavor	20	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	11	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Fungiphilic	1	J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat	3	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
GST-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	2	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hepatomagenic	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	6	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	1	Martindale's 29th
Herbicide	8	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Histamine-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Histaminic	2	Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	2	Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.
Hypertensive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypnotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hypocalcemic	1	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.