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Plant Rosa damascena (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Damask 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
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 *
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
Hypocholesterolemic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic? 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoglycemic 5 Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive 4 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Hypothermic 2 Duke, 1992 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant 2 Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide 6 Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge 13 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile 4 J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.
Insulinogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interferonogenic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 9 Duke, 1992 *
JNK-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *