Rosa × damascena, Damask roses
An ancient holy rose 🌹 with heavenly fragrance, and so many healing properties, wears few thorns for its protection, that are actually helping it to conserve water!
Rosa × damascena, more commonly known as the Damask roses are renowned for their fine fragrance, and are commercially harvested for rose oil used in perfumery and to make rose water and "rose concrete". The flower petals are also edible. They may be used to flavor food, as a garnish, as a herbal tea, and preserved in sugar as gulkand.
Rosa damascena is believed to have its origin in the foothills of Central Asia.
It is grown as an ornamental plant in warm climate regions.
It is known as “Gul-ae-Mohammadi” in Iran. Iranian people call this plant, the flower of Prophet “Mohammad”.
It finds a prominent place in Iranian medicine and Ayurveda and is traditionally used for treatment of abdominal and chest pains, strengthening the heart, menstrual disorders, digestive problems and constipation.
It is economically a valuable plant with therapeutic applications in modern medicine. The antimicrobial, antioxidant, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic and anti-depressant properties of R. damascena have been confirmed. Citronellol and geraniol as the main components of R. damascena essential oil are responsible for pharmacological activities.
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