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Rose                                                                                     Rosa Centifolia

'"It strengtheneth the heart, the stomach, the liver and the retentive faculty; is good against all kinds of fluxes, prevents vomiting, stops tickling coughs and is of service in consumption. " Culpepper

Modern Medicinal Uses : In modern herbal medicine the flowers of the common Red Rose dried are given in infusions and sometimes in powder for hemorrhage. A tincture is made from them by pouring 1 pint of boiling water on 1 OZ. of the dried petals, adding 15 drops of oil of Vitriol and 3 or 4 drachms of white sugar. The tincture when strained is of a beautiful red color. Three or four spoonful of the tincture taken two or three times a day are considered good for strengthening the stomach and a pleasant remedy in all hemorrhages.

 

Older Uses : The old herbalists considered the Red Rose to be more binding and more astringent than any of the other species. Uses are many : 

Electuary of roses : purging, good in hot fevers, jaundice and joint aches

The moist conserve is of much use both binding and cordial, the old conserve mixed with aromaticum rosarum is a very good preservative in  time of infection. 

The dry conserve called the sugar of roses is a very good cordial against fainting, weakness and trembling of the heart, strengthens a weak stomach, promotes digestion and is a very good preservative in the time of infection. 

The syrup of roses "cooleth an over-heated liver and the blood in agues, comforteth the heart and resisteth putrefaction and infection."

The cordial powder called aromatic rosarum, the distilled water of roses, vinegar of roses, ointment and oil of roses and the rose leaves dried are of very great use and effect.

Honey of roses is used in gargles and lotions to wash sores, either in the mouth, throat or other parts, both to cleanse and heal them. Red rose-water is well known, it is cooling, cordial, refreshing, quickening the weak and faint spirits, used either in meats or broths to smell at the nose, or to smell the sweet vapors out of a perfume pot, or cast into a hot fire-shovel. It is of much use against redness and inflammation of the eyes to bathe therewith and the temples of the head. The ointment of roses is much used against heat and inflammation of the head, to anoint the forehead and temples and to cool and heal red pimples.

 Oil of roses is used to cool hot inflammation or swellings and to bind and stay fluxes of humors to sores and is also put into ointments and plasters that are cooling and binding. 

The dried leaves of the red roses are used both outwardly and inwardly; they cool, bind and are cordial. Rose-leaves and mint, heated and applied outwardly to the stomach, stay castings, strengthen a weak stomach and applied as a fomentation to the region of the liver and heart, greatly cool and temper them, quiet the over-heated spirits and cause rest and sleep. 

The decoction of red roses made with white wine and used is very good for head-ache and pains in the eyes, ears, throat and gums.'

Cosmetic Uses : On account of its fragrance, the petals of this variety of rose are much used in France for distillation of rose-water. Though possessing aperient properties, they are seldom now used internally and preparations of them are not official in the British Pharmacopoeia.

Rose-water :  mix the distilled rose-water of commerce, obtained  from R. centifolia and other species, with twice its volume of distilled water immediately before use. It is used as a vehicle for other medicines and as an eye lotion. Triple rose-water is water saturated with volatile oil of Rose petals, obtained as a by-product in the distillation of oil of Roses. The finest rose-water is obtained by distillation of the fresh petals. It should be clear and colorless, not mucilaginous, and to be of value medicinally must be free from all metallic impurities, which may be detected by hydrogen sulphide and ammonium sulphide, neither of which should produce turbidity in the water.

Ointment of rose-water, commonly known as Cold Cream, enjoys deserved popularity as a soothing, cooling application for chapping of the hands, face, abrasions and other superficial lesions of the skin. For its preparation, the British Pharmacopia directs that 1 1/2 OZ. each of spermaceti and white wax be melted with 9 OZ. of Almond oil, the mixture poured into a warmed mortar and 7 fluid ounces of rose-water and 8 minims of oil of Rose then incorporated with it.

BH3734      Rose Buds/Petals, red                    $4.00/4oz

BH3738      Rose Buds/Petals, red                    $7.60/8oz

BH373P     Rose Buds/Petals, red                    $14.40/lb

BH3744     Rose Buttons, pink whl                       $7.00/4oz

BH3748     Rose Buttons, pink whl                       $12.70/8oz

BH374P    Rose Buttons, pink whl                       $22.85/lb

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