Shatapatri

TRADITIONAL VIEW, WITH SAFETY LIMITS

Hindi name: Gulab

What the texts say Shatapatri does

• Hridya — good for the heart
• Dahaprashamana — relieves burning
• Rechana — purgative
• Varnya — improves complexion
• Medhya — supports intellect and memory
• Trishnanigrahana — quenching thirst

What the evidence says. Traditional use is extensive and long recorded. Modern clinical evidence is limited.

Side effects and limits

• Loose stool in quantity
• Allergic reaction in those sensitive to Rosaceae

Avoid or ask first: Diabetes, as regards Gulkand in quantity.

A traditional classification, not a recommendation. The full safety record is below.

AS THE CLASSICAL TEXTS AND THE API PRESCRIBE

Gulkand is the classical preparation and is a food quantity, not a drug matra.

Reported from Sharangadhara Samhita and the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India. Laisha states what the texts prescribe; it does not recommend. No quantity here is adjusted for a particular person — not for agni, koshtha, bala, age, pregnancy, kidney or liver function, or anything already being taken.

Kashaya, tikta and madhura with sheeta virya and katu vipaka.

These are the actions the classical texts record. They are statements about what the tradition holds, and this library does not restate them as findings about a human body.

Shatapatri means hundred-petalled, which is both the name and the identification — the medicinal roses are the many-petalled fragrant kinds, and the epithet centifolia says the same thing in Latin.

Rasa, guna, virya, vipaka and karma are recorded as the classical texts give them, with the text and section named so a student can open the book and check. Where an exact chapter and verse could not be confirmed, this library names the section rather than inventing a number.

Rose water is very commonly synthetic — a solution of rose fragrance rather than a distillate — and the bottle rarely says. Gulkand is bulked with sugar far beyond what the preparation needs, and with petals of scentless varieties which carry none of the oil. A true distillate is faintly cloudy and its scent fades; a synthetic one is water-clear and its scent does not.

Matched live against the GBIF backbone on 28 September 2026 at 99 per cent confidence. Rosa damascena is used identically and is what most Indian rose products are made from. The texts mean the fragrant old varieties, not the scentless modern florist rose.

A WAY TO REMEMBER IT

Rosa is the Latin rose. Centifolia means hundred-leaved, for the hundred petals. Shata-patri means exactly the same: hundred-petalled. The Latin is a translation of the Sanskrit.

Shatapatri is described in the Bhavaprakasha Nighantu among the flowers. That is what the tradition holds and where it is written down, not a finding about what the petal does in a body.

Constituents. The petal carries an essential oil with citronellol and geraniol, along with flavonoids and tannins.

• This is a study and clinical reference for practitioners and students. The matra and anupana it records are what the classical texts and the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India PRESCRIBE — Laisha reports them, it does not recommend them. They are not a prescription for any particular person, and they are not adjusted for your age, agni, koshtha, bala, pregnancy, kidney or liver function, or anything else you are already taking. Only a qualified practitioner who has examined you can do that.
• Traditional classification is recorded as what the classical texts say, with the text and the place in it named so it can be checked. It is not restated as a finding about a human body.
• Nothing here replaces a qualified Ayurvedic practitioner or a doctor.