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EVIDENCE SUMMARY
ROSEMARY
For added safety and efficacy, we are making reference to the NHPD monograph for Oral Rosemary
Monograph: Rosemary
Date: 2008-01-23
Proper name: Rosmarinus officinalis L. (Lamiaceae)
Common name: Rosemary
Source material: Leaf
Uses: Traditionally used in Herbal Medicine to help ease (gastric) headaches
Traditionally used in Herbal Medicine to help relieve flatulent dyspepsia (carminative)
Preparation: dry, powder, decoction & infusion + non-standardized Extracts
Dose(s): 0.6 -12 grams/d, dried leaf
Duration of use: No statement is required
Cautions:
Consult a health care practitioner prior to use if symptoms persist
Consult a health care practitioner if symptoms worsen
Contraindication(s)
Do not use if you are pregnant or breastfeeding
Known Adverse Reaction(s):
No statement is required
Based on the ‘information box’ under Safety Evidence Section 2.5 of ‘Pathway for Licensing Natural Health Products
Making Modern Health Claims’, the following question/statement suggests that ingredients used as foods provide safety
of that ingredient. Each of the ingredients in EstroBlock has demonstrated safe food use.
Did you know that demonstrated food use of a medicinal ingredient can support the safety of that ingredient?
The accumulated evidence supports that rosemary is one of the important antioxidants which are commonly used in
different nation’s folk medicine.
Rosmarinic acid is well absorbed from gastrointestinal tract and from the skin. It increases the production of prostaglandin
E2 and reduces the production of leukotriene B4 in human polymorphonuclear leucocytes, and inhibits the complement
system. It is concluded that rosemary and its constituents especially caffeic acid derivatives such as rosmarinic acid have a
therapeutic potential in treatment or prevention of bronchial asthma, spasmogenic disorders, peptic ulcer, inflammatory
diseases, hepatotoxicity, atherosclerosis, ischaemic heart disease, cataract, cancer and poor sperm motility.
Scientific data
No scientific data is provided for Rosemary as the NHPD has generated a monograph with pre-cleared
published data.
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Traditional references
Botanical Safety Handbook American Herbal Products Associations CRC Press 1997
Michael McGuffin, Christopher Hobbs, Roy Upton and Alicia Goldberg
Sesame seed Pgs. 99, 98, 192, 193, 196
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Class 1: herbs that can be safely consumed when used appropriately
Handbook of Medicinal Herbs Second Edition
CRC Press 1929, pg. 630-632
James Duke and Peggy Ann Duke
C.E. Hobbs Botanical Hand-Book pgs. 235, 236, 240, 234, 260
Crude Vegetable Drugs, Etc., in Common Use: Their Properties, Productions and Uses, in an Abbreviated Form
In Three Parts
Printed by Chas. C. Roberts 21 Brattle Street Boston, 1876
Materia Medica of India and their Therapeutics pgs. 495
Rustomjee Naserwanjee Khory and Nanabhai Navrosji Katrak
Bombay India: Printed by the Caxton Works 1903
Rosmarinus officinalis
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