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
Antilithic?	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphocytic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphomic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial	1	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antimelanogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanomic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimetastatic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimetastatic (Stomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimitotic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antimutagenic	10	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antimyocarditic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antinitrosaminic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antinitrosating	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antinociceptive	2	Rao, V.S.N., Menezes, A.M.S., Viana, G.S.B. 1990. Effect of myrcene on nociception in mice. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 877-878, 1990.
Antiobesity	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiophidic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antioxidant	11	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antipancreatitic	1	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antipeptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiperiodontal	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).