Rosemary and Rosemary Extract,Rosmarinic Acid,Diterpenes.Carnosol.Carnosic Acid,Functions and applications of rosemary.

Contents

• Botanical Description of Rosemary and Generally function.
• Brief introduction of Rosemary Extracts.
• Phytochemicals and Constituent of Rosemary.
• Natural antioxidant VS Traditional antioxidant: substitution and new choice.
• Comparative Effective of Rosemary Antioxidant with Tea Polyphenols,BHA,BHT.
• Therapeutics and Pharmacology of Rosemary.
• Rosemary Extracts as functional additives in Cosmetics.
• Medicinal Uses and Indications of Rosemary.
• Rosemary has a rich history.
• Dosage Guide of Rosemary.
• Precautions Safety and Toxicology of Rosemary.
• Research update.
• Photo Gallery of Rosmarinus officinalis.

Rosemary has a rich history.:

Rosemary has a rich history, holding a special position among herbs for the symbolism connected with it.

 References to rosemary were found written in cuneiform on stone tablets dating from the fifth millennium B.C. Dioscorides, the first century Greek physician, recommended it for its "warming faculty." The Latin name, rosmarinus, means "dew of the sea;" it was so called because it grew around the Mediterranean and became associated in ancient Rome with Venus, the goddess of love who emerged from the sea. Because of that legend ?and also because it was reputed to strengthen memory ?it became the symbol of fidelity in love. Rosemary was used at both weddings and funerals, for decking churches and banqueting halls at festivals, as incense in religious ceremonies and in magic spells; meanwhile, Ancient Romans and Greeks wore rosemary wreaths on their heads when studying to enhance their memory. (This use is still perpetuated today: Rosemary is burned in Greek students' homes while studying.)

 Christians called Rosemary the "Holy Herb" and associated it with Mary, who, according to Spanish legend, draped her cloak over a rosemary bush on the Holy Family's flight to Egypt, turning the color of the blossoms from white to blue. (Some say this is the source of the name: the "Rose of Mary".) Rosemary ?along with juniper and thyme ?was burned in medieval hospitals as an antiseptic. It was widely grown in kitchen gardens in England at that time; an old folk saying was that, "Where rosemary flourishes, the woman rules." Down through the ages, it continued to enjoy a reputation for aiding memory. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia says, "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance?

 At weddings, it was first dipped into scented water, and then entwined in the wreath worn by the bride; Anne of Cleves wore such a wreath at her wedding in 1539. A Rosemary branch, gilded with multi-colored silk ribbons, was also presented to wedding guests as a symbol of love and loyalty. Together with an orange stuck with cloves it was given as a New Year's gift; allusions to this custom are to be found in Ben Jonson's plays.

 Miss Anne Pratt says in her Flowers and their Associations:

 But it was not among the herbalists and apothecaries merely that rosemary had its reputation for peculiar virtues. The celebrated Doctor of Divinity, Roger Hacket, did not disdain to expatiate on its excellencies in the pulpit. In a sermon which he entitles 'A Marriage Present,' which was published in 1607, he says: 'Speaking of the powers of rosemary, it overtoppeth all the flowers in the garden, boasting man's rule. It helpeth the brain, strengtheneth the memorie, and is very medicinable for the head. Another property of the rosemary is, it affects the heart. Let this rosmarinus, this flower of men ensigne of your wisdom, love and loyaltie, be carried not only in your hands, but in your hearts and heads.

Flowers and their Associations

 Sir Thomas More writes:

As for Rosmarine, I lett it runne all over my garden walls, not onlie because my bees love it, but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance, and, therefore, to friendship; whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language that maketh it the chosen emblem of our funeral wakes and in our buriall grounds.

Thomas More

 In early times, rosemary was cultivated in kitchen gardens and came to represent the dominant influence of the housemistress. "Where Rosemary flourished, the woman ruled," says the old adage ?as it also did with parsley.

 John Lindley and Thomas Moore's 1889 The Treasury of Botany states:

There is a vulgar belief in Gloucestershire and other counties, that Rosemary will not grow well unless where the mistress is 'master;' and so touchy are some of the lords of creation upon this point, that we have more than once had reason to suspect them of privately injuring a growing rosemary in order to destroy this evidence of their want of authority.

The Treasury of Botany

 Both in Spain and Italy, rosemary was considered a safeguard from witches and evil influences in general. In Sicily, it's believed that young fairies, taking the forms of snakes, lie amongst rosemary's branches. It was an old custom to burn rosemary in rooms where an ill person lay; and in French hospitals it was customary to burn rosemary with Juniper berries to purify the air and prevent infection. A sprig of rosemary was distributed to mourners at funerals to be cast on to the coffin after being lowered into the grave (which was a custom in Wales until quite recently).

 One old legend compares the growth of the plant with the height of the Saviour and declares that after thirty-three years it increases in breadth, but never in height.

 In a copy of an old manuscript in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, the translator, Danyel Bain, states that Rosemary was unknown in England until Queen Philippa's mother ?the Countess of Hainault ?sent some to her daughter.


 From the Grete Herbal:

 "Rosemary?For weyknesse of ye brayne. Against weyknesse of the brayne and coldenesse thereof, sethe rosemaria in wyne and lete the pacyent receye the smoke at his nose and keep his heed warme."

 "Hungary Water," as it's now known, was first invented for Elizabeth, Queen of Hungary for external application to restore the use of paralyzed limbs; she was said to have been completely cured by its continued use, and a formula in her handwriting, dated to 1235, is preserved in Vienna. Hungary Water can be prepared by putting one and a half pounds (700 grams) of fresh Rosemary tops in full flower into one gallon (4 liters) of spirits of wine, then allowing it to stand for four days before distilling it. Hungary Water was also vigorously rubbed into the hands and feet as a treatment for gout.

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