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

Common Names

Damask Rose

How this plant is used

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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
Spasmogenic	3	Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Spasmolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Spermicide	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Sprout-Inhibitor	1	Duke, J.A.. Personal Communication.
Sunscreen	1	Duke, 1992 *
Surfactant	1	Schulz, V, Hansel, R and Tyler, VE. 1998. Rational Phytotherapy - A Physician's Guide to Herbal Medicine. 3rd ed. 1st English Edition. Translated by Terry C. Telger. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg. 306 pp.
Sweetener	1	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Teratogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Teratologic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Termiticide	4	Duke, 1992 *
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor	2	Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	2	Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Tranquilizer	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal	3	Duke, 1992 *
Tremorilytic	1	Martindale's 28th
Trichomonicide	5	Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonistat	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Trypsin-Enhancer	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-93.
Tumorigenic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.