TY - JOUR ID - 5018 TI - Pharmacological Effects of Rosa Damascena JO - Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences JA - IJBMS LA - en SN - 2008-3866 AU - Boskabady, mohammad Hossein AU - Shafei, Mohammad Naser AU - Saberi, Zahra AU - Amini, Somayeh AD - Department of Physiology, School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Research Centre, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran AD - Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran Y1 - 2011 PY - 2011 VL - 14 IS - 4 SP - 295 EP - 307 KW - Damask Rose KW - Essential oil KW - Pharmacological properties KW - Rosa damascena KW - Rose water DO - 10.22038/ijbms.2011.5018 N2 - Rosa damascena mill L., known as Gole Mohammadi in Iran is one of the most important species of Rosaceae family flowers. R. damascena is an ornamental plant and beside perfuming effect, several pharmacological properties including anti-HIV, antibacterial, antioxidant, antitussive, hypnotic, antidiabetic, and relaxant effect on tracheal chains have been reported for this plant. This article is a comprehensive review on pharmacological effects of R. damascena. Online literature searches were performed using Medline, Pubmed, Iran medex, Scopus, and Google Scholar websites backed to 1972 to identify researches about R. damascena. Searches also were done by going through the author's files and the bibliographies of all located papers. UR - https://ijbms.mums.ac.ir/article_5018.html L1 - https://ijbms.mums.ac.ir/article_5018_442bf7736746c5f19396195e98656c9a.pdf ER -