Homeopathic Materia Medica

Rosa damascena

Alias: Ros-d.

Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, William Boericke

Damask Rose

Useful in the beginning of hay-fever, with involvement of Eustachian tube.

Ear.--Hardness of hearing; tinnitus. Eustachian catarrh (Hydr; Merc dulc).

Relationship.--Compare: in hay-fever: Phleum pratense--Timothy grass--(Hay-fever with asthma; watery coryza, itching of nose and eyes; frequent sneezing, dyspnoea. Use 6-30 potency. Rabe). Succin acid; Sabad; Euph; Psor; Kali hyd; Naphth.

Dose.--Lower potencies.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke

Damask or Damascus Rose.─N. O. Rosaceae. Tincture of the flowers (?).

Clinical.─Hay-fever.

Characteristics.─Farrington mentions that R. dam. was introduced by Jeanes as a remedy at the beginning of rose-cold when the Eustachian tube is involved, with some degree of deafness and tinnitus.