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
Anticancer (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Pancreas)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Prostate)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticariogenic	2	Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticataract	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticolitic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticomplementary	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticonvulsant	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiCrohn's	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticystitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidepressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidermatitic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antidiabetic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidote (Strychnine)	1	Duke, 1992 *