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Rose

Rosa gallica

Rose appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.

Risk: low concern
Books: 75
Contexts: 4
Mentions: 438

Overview Reading Contexts Citations Related Books

Archive Profile

Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.

Herb identity

Common name: rose
Latin name: Rosa gallica(ambiguous)
Identity note: Rose has heavy symbolic, Rosicrucian, color, and verb noise; rose/roses/red rose are all useful.

Safety

low concern

Food and aromatic use are generally low concern; essential oils and extracts require separate handling.

Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.

Kew POWO: Food and aromatic use are generally low concern; essential oils and extracts require separate handling.

Aliases

rosered roseRosa gallicaroses

Rose in Historical Sources

Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.

Hermetikon's curated reading of Rose (Rosa gallica) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 2 preparation or ritual-use entries. The strongest recurring contexts are medicine, folk magic, and symbolism. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.

Medicine

high

Culpeper treats red rose-water as cooling and cordial, used in food, broths, temple-washing, scent, vapour, and eye inflammation.

Culpeper's Complete Herbal | Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

Chapter 16

Folk magic

high

Spence preserves rose omens: white autumn roses could signify early marriage, rose leaves could be used in lover divination, and rose leaves on fire gave good luck.

Encyclopaedia of Occultism | Lewis Spence | 1920

Page 398

Symbolism

high

Frazer links the red rose to Aphrodite and Adonis, explaining its colour through Aphrodite's blood after her lover's wounding.

The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1907

Chapter X. The Gardens of Adonis.

Preparations and ritual uses

Rose water

high

Culpeper describes red rose-water for food, broths, temple washing, scenting, perfuming vapours, and bathing inflamed eyes.

Culpeper's Complete Herbal | Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

Chapter 16

Syrup

high

King's gives syrup of red rose petals as a pleasant subastringent flavoring and coloring agent.

King's American Dispensatory | Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854

Page 1015

Rose Archive Contexts

Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.

Medicine

1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Encyclopaedia of Occultism.

Matched as red rose; high confidence.

Astrology

6 passages across 6 books; strongest source: Liber 777.

Matched as rose; high confidence.

Preparation

6 passages across 6 books; strongest source: Culpeper's Complete Herbal.

Matched as red rose; high confidence.

Symbolism

2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: The Golden Bough.

Matched as red rose; high confidence.

Rose Cited Excerpts

Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.

5 shown

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper

1653

"...stay vomiting, and are very good for those that have slippery bowels, to strengthen them, and to dry up their moisture. Red Rose-water is well known, and of familiar use on all occasions, and better than Damask Rose-water, being cooling and cordial, refreshing, quickening the weak and faint spirits, used either in meats or broths, to wash the temples, to smell at the nose, or to smell the sweet vapours thereof out of a perfuming pot, or cast into a hot fire shovel. It is also of much good use against the redness and inflammations of the eyes to bathe them therew..."

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Preparationalias: red rosehigh confidence

King's American Dispensatory

Harvey Wickes Felter

1854

"... l)eautiful red color, and is often used to color mixtures. It has a pleasant, subastringent taste. One fluid drachm of red rose petals is represented in each fluid ounce of syrup. Uses. — Employed chiefly as a flavoring and coloring agent. Dose, 1 fluid drachm. SYRUPUS RUBI (U. S. P.)— SYRUP OF RUBUS. Preparation.— 'Fluid extract of rubus, two hundred and fifty cubic centimeter> 2-')ti L'c. ) [8 ri5, 218 111] ; syrup, seven hundred and fifty cubic centimeters (750 C'c. I [25 II5, 173 1TI]; to make one thousand cubic centimeters (1000 Cc.) [33 t\-. :;91 mi. Mix ..."

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Preparationalias: red rosehigh confidence

The Family Herbal

John Hill

1755

"... Conserves of the flowers of rosemary, mallows, archangel, and lavender, are to be made also in the same manner, and of red rose buds. These last are to be picked from the husk, and the white heels are to be cut off. They are all to be beat up with three times their weight of sugar; and in the same manner may be made conserves of cowslip flowers, and of those of many other plants mentioned in the following pages. The outer rinds of Seville oranges and lemons, are also to be made into conserves in the same manner, beating them first to a pulp, and then adding the..."

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Preparationalias: red rosehigh confidence

Encyclopaedia of Occultism

Lewis Spence

1920

"...as a heart of gold. In the. west of Scotland if a white rose bloomed in autumn it was a token of an early marriage. The red rose, it was said, would not bloom over a grave. If a young girl had several lovers, and wished to know which of them would be her husband, she would take a rose leaf for each of her sweethearts, and naming each leaf after the name of one of her lovers, she would watch them till one after another they sank, and the last to sink would be her future husband. Rose leaves thrown upon a fire gave good luck. If a rose bush were pruned on St. John..."

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Medicinealias: red rosehigh confidence

The Golden Bough

James George Frazer

1907

"... ), which seems to have been an epithet of Adonis. The Arabs still call the anemone â€œwounds of the Naaman.â€ 675 The red rose also was said to owe its hue to the same sad occasion; for Aphrodite, hastening to her wounded lover, trod on a bush of white roses; the cruel thorns tore her tender flesh, and her sacred blood dyed the white roses for ever red. 676 It would be idle, perhaps, to lay much weight on evidence drawn from the calendar of flowers, and in particular to press an argument so fragile as the bloom of the rose. Yet so far as it counts at all, the ..."

Chapter X. The Gardens of Adonis.Open in Reader

Symbolismalias: red rosehigh confidence

Books Mentioning Rose

Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.

75 books

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

red roseroses

78 mentionscited

A Book of Myths

Andrew Lang | 1889

red roseroseroses

47 mentions

Argonautica

Apollonius Rhodius | 250

roseroses

20 mentions

The Gospel of Buddha

Paul Carus | 1894

rose

19 mentions

The Mathnawi

R. A. Nicholson | 1925

red roseroses

19 mentions

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable

E. Cobham Brewer | 1870

red roseroses

19 mentions

The Mathnawi, Vol. 2

R. A. Nicholson | 1926

red roseroseroses

17 mentions

Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton | 1621

roseroses

16 mentions

The Family Herbal

John Hill | 1755

red roseroses

12 mentionscited

Encyclopaedia of Antiquities

Thomas Dudley Fosbroke | 1825

Archive Profile

Herb identity

Safety

Aliases

Rose in Historical Sources

Medicine

Folk magic

Symbolism

Preparations and ritual uses

Rose water

Syrup

Rose Archive Contexts

Medicine

Astrology

Preparation

Symbolism

Rose Cited Excerpts

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

King's American Dispensatory

The Family Herbal

Encyclopaedia of Occultism

The Golden Bough

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