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| Rose |
| Botanical Name |
| Rosa centifolia,R.gallica,R.damascena |
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| ROSACEAE Rose Family |
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| Parts Used: Hips, flower petals, leaves, bark |
| Constituents:Vitamin C (to 1.7%), vitamins B,E, and K, nicotinamide, organic acids, tannin, pectin |
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The rose is highly steeped in history and romance, but when we think of roses as medicine, we tend to think of the high vitamin C content of the hips. But this represents only a fraction of the healing powers of this garden favorite.
Rosa gallica officinalis, the apothecary's rose, was the offical cultiavar in The British Pharmacopoeia, however, there are many variations, in fact there are practically no pure R. gallica now to be had, only hybrids. Those used in medicine and generally appearing in commerce are actually any scented roses of a deep red color, or when dried of a deep rose tint. The main point is that the petals suitable for medicinal purposes must yield a deep rose-colored and somewhat astringent and fragrant infusion when boiling water is poured upon them. |
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Prep Methods :petal infusions, rose hips
 Remedies using Rose
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 Attar of rose is one of the oldest and best known of all the oils. Rose oil is steam-extracted from the flowers. The fragrance of rose is associated with love. It is warm, intense, immensely rich and rosy. |
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Aphrodisiac *Calming *Mood Uplfting * |
 A refreshing summer tea is made from mixing 1/2 ounce rose petals and 4 oz Oolong tea. Serve unstrained in clear glasses so the petals are visible at the bottom of the glass |
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| Anti-depressant | | The scent of roses is a time honored anti-depressant and creates a feeling of well being and mild euphoria 839
| | Stop bleeding | | Rose and more so rose bark are astringent, and help staunch bleeding 838
| | Aphrodisiac | | Sensual and evocative, rose has been used since ancient times as a favorite ingredient in love potions, and as an aphrodisiac. It reduces anxiety connected with sex, helping calms emotions that block arousal 837
(Nickell,Nancy L ) | | Skin care | | Astringent and luxurious,rose oils and rose waters are welcome additions to almost any skin care formulation 840
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Koehler's Medicinal-Plants 1887
 The Damask rose (Rosa damascena), Provence rose (Rosa Gallica) and Eglantine(Rosa elganteraia) are the three oldest roses in cultivation and are considered to be the most fragrant roses in the world.
Wild roses: Just as many members of the lily tribe show a preference for the rule of three in the arrangements of their floral parts, so the wild roses cling to the quinary method of some primitive ancestor, a favorite one also with the buttercup and many of its kin, the geraniums, mallows, and various others. Most of our fruit trees and bushes are near relatives of the rose. Five petals and five sepals, then, we always find on roses in a state of nature; and although the progressive gardener of today has nowhere shown his skill more than in the development of a multitude of petals from stamens in the magnificent roses of fashionable society, the most highly cultivated darling of the greenhouses quickly reverts to the original wild type, setting his work of years at naught, if once it regain its natural liberties through neglect.
To protect its foliage from being eaten by hungry cattle, the rose goes armed into the battle of life with curved, sharp prickles, not true thorns or modified branches, but merely surface appliances which peel off with the bark. To destroy crawling pilferers of pollen, several species coat their calices, at least, with fine hairs or sticky gum; and to insure wide distribution of offspring, the seeds are packed in the attractive, bright red calyx tube or hip, a favorite food of many birds, which drop them miles away. Netje Blanchan Wild Flowers worth Knowing(1917)
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 The rose plays a prominent role in Greek and Roman mythology, Homer's allusions to it in the Iliad and Odyssey are the earliest records, and Sappho, the Greek poetess, writing in about 600 B.C., crowned the Rose Queen of Flowers.
In literature, ancient and modern, sacred and profane, no flower figures so conspicuously as the rose. To the Romans it was most significant when placed over the door of a public or private banquet hall. Each who passed beneath it bound himself thereby not to disclose anything said or done within; hence the expression sub rosa, common to this day. Netje Blanchan Wild Flowers worth Knowing(1917)
Roses were grown in monastery gardens in the Middle Ages in Europe and used by the monks for medicinal purposes. The French have been distilling roses since before the
French revolution, these early French ottos were a byproduct of the distillation process.
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 It is under the dominion of Venus. Botanists describe a vast number of roses, but this (Damask), and the comon red rose, and the dog rose, or hip, are the only kinds regarded in medicine. Nicholas Culpeper |
 The rose is so highly steeped in history and romance that the following account by M. Grieve (A Modern Herbal, Vol 2, pg 684) is a mere taste, just enough perhaps to arouse your curiosity.
It was between 1582 and 1612 that the oil or OTTO OF ROSES was discovered, as recorded in two separate histories of the Grand Moguls. At the wedding feast of the princess Nour-Djihan with the Emperor Djihanguyr, son of Akbar, a canal circling the whole gardens was dug and filled with rose-water. The heat of the sun separating the water from the essential oil of the Rose, was observed by the bridal pair when rowing on the fragrant water. It was skimmed off and found to be an exquisite perfume. The discovery was immediately turned to account and the manufacture of Otto of Roses was commenced in Persia about 1612 and long before the end of the seventeenth century the distilleries of Shiraz were working on a large scale. The first mention of Persian Otto or Attar of Roses is by Kampfer (1683), who alludes to the export to India. |
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