Botanical species · safety record

Rosa x

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 7 constituent measurements and 1 adverse-effect record for Rosa x. This page reports what those source records contain and how to reach them. It carries no effect estimate, no dose and no recommendation.

Accepted name in source: Rosa x damascena Herrm.

7Constituent measurements

1Safety records

3Cited sources

0Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Rosa x damascena f. trigintipetala (Dieck) R.Keller

Synonyms are carried from the source compendium. A species may be traded and studied under more than one name, which is exactly how a safety record gets lost.

Regulatory presence

No Health Canada licensed natural health product in the snapshot names this species as a medicinal ingredient under this exact binomial. Absence here means absence from this one register under this one name, not absence from trade, and not a safety verdict.

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Effect types

Target tissues

Recorded constituents

What analytical work has found in this species, at which plant part and preparation. A measured constituent is a fact about material, not about effect.

Substance	Plant part	Preparation	Concentration	Analytical method	Source
Eugenol	Flower	Essential oil	≤ 1.8 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Eugenol	Flower	Essential oil	≥ 0.7 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Methyleugenol	Flower	Essential oil	1.1 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Flower	Essential oil	1.3 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Eugenol	Unspecified	Essential oil	1.7 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Methyleugenol	Unspecified	Essential oil	1.5 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Myrcene	Unspecified	Essential oil	2.3 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier

Recorded adverse effects

Adverse effects reported in the source literature, most often in animal or laboratory models at a stated preparation and dose.

Effect	Target tissue	Plant part	Preparation	Test organism	Test type	Source
Digestive	Digestive	Flower	Solvent extraction	—	In vitro	Resolve DOI

Cited sources

The literature the compendium cites for this species. Metatron Health has no relationship with these authors or journals and earns nothing from citing them.

Gholamhoseinian, A., Fallah, H., Far, F. Sharifi. Inhibitory effect of methanol extract of Rosa damascena Mill. flowers on alpha-glucosidase activity and postprandial hyperglycemia in normal and diabetic rats . Phytomedicine, 2009, vol. 16, no. 10, p. 935-941. DOI
Kumar, Rakesh., Sharma, Saurabh., Sood, Swati., Agnihotri, Vijai K., Singh, Virendra., Singh, Bikram. Evaluation of several Rosa damascena varieties and Rosa bourboniana accession for essential oil content and composition in western Himalayas . Journal of essential oil research, 2014, vol. 26, no. 3, p. 147-152. DOI
Abdel-Hameed, El-Sayed S., Bazaid, Salih A., Hagag, Heba A. Chemical characterization of Rosa damascena Miller var. trigintipetala Dieck essential oil and its in vitro genotoxic and cytotoxic properties . Journal of essential oil research, 2016, vol. 28, no. 2, p. 121-129.

Boundary

A constituent measurement is a fact about material at a stated preparation, not a statement about what that material does in a person. An adverse-effect or genotoxicity record is an observation reported in a source, most often in an animal or laboratory model. Neither is a Metatron Health conclusion about causality, human risk or benefit, and the absence of a record is not proof that a preparation is safe. Nothing here is diagnosis, prescribing or individual medical care.

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