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The Philippine's National
Flower.
Botany
· Spreading or
sprawling shrub, usually less than 2 m in height.
· Leaves are glossy, ovate or rounded and 6 to 12 cm long,
with short stalks, pointed or blunt tip and pointed or rounded base.
· Flowers are white, very fragrant and borne singly or in 3's
in axillary or terminal inflorescence.
Calyx teeth are 8 to 10, very slender, 5 to 8 mm long. Corolla tube
is slender and 1 to 1.5 cm long, the limb is usually double and 1.5
to 2 cm in diameter. Stamens, 2, included, ovary, 2-celled.
· The double kind is called "kampupot," which is
less fragrant.
 Distribution
- Commonly cultivated
throughout the Philippines for ornamental purposes but probably nowhere
spontaneous.
- Native of tropical Asia.
- Now pantropic.
Constituents
- Tannins, fats,
silicon, iron, glucosides, calcium oxalate, essential oil from the
flowers is similar to jasmin (Jasminum grandiflores)
- Phytochemical study yielded alkaloids, glycoside, flavanoid,
terpines, tannin, resin and salicylic acid.
- From the roots, study yielded: dotriacontanoic acid, dotriacontanol,
oleanolic acid, daucoste4rol and hesperidin.
- Studies have yielded the flavanoids, saponins, terpenoid, and glycosides.
- Study isolated secoiriodidal glycosides - sambacoside A, sambacolingoside A, 7,11-dimethyloleoside, molihuaside D, tannins and akaloids.
Properties
· Considered an aphrodisiac, anti-depressant, antiseptic, cicatrisant, expectorant, anti-spasmodic, galactagogue, sedative, parturient, and uterine tonic.
· Leaves
and flowers, antipyretic and decongestant; roots, analgesic.
· Flowers considered lactifuge.
· Flower extract considered deodorant.
· Roots considered purgative, expectorant, anthelmintic.
Parts used and preparation
Flowers, roots and leaves.
Collect buds and newly opened flowers, sun-dry after harvest.
Uses
Edibility
- Flowers used to make jasmine tea.
- In China, flowers
n are used for giving aroma to tea.
Ornamental
- A favorite floral offering
and adornment for altars.
- Strung into flower necklaces.
Folkloric
-
Pound flowers or leaves and apply to ulcers.
- Decoction of flowers or leaves used for fever and cough.
- Decoction of dried flowers used for fever and abdominal distention.
- Decoction of dried flower used as eye wash for eye redness and swelling.
- Poultice of roots combined with others drugs used for sprains and fractures.
- Roots used with leaves in making lotions to make an eye lotion.
- Bruised leaves are applied to the breasts as lactifuge.
- Decoction of roots used for insanity and various mouth affections.
- Leaves, boiled in oil, exude a balsam used for anointing the head for eye complaints. Balsam is believed to strengthen the vision and also used as a remedy for insanity.
- Dried leaves, soaked in water and made into a poultice, used for indolent ulcers.
- In India, traditionally used
for skin disorders. Used to treat and prevent cancer.
- In India, flowers used as lactifuge. effectual in arresting the secretion of milk in the puerperal state, as application of unmoistened bruised flowers, once or twice daily, to each breast.
- In China, flowers used as antispasmodic.
- In the Antilles, root decoction or infusion of flowers used for pectoral properties; employed in asthma, bronchitis, and pulmonary catarrh.
- In ancient Baghdad, used with
opium for gangrenous ulcers of the gums. source
- In Jordan, infusion of flowers used for ulcerations, dermatoses and fever.
Cosmetic
- Infusion
of flowers used as a face wash because of its fragrance, cleansing
and soothing properties.
- Flowers
in ben oil or coconut oil for hair, facial or body use or as a perfume
oil or perfume base.
- Digestion
with vegetable oil to make oil tinctures or liniments.
- Used to scent coconut oil used for the hair.
 Studies
• Antibacterial:
Phytochemicals yielded alkaloids, glycoside, flavanoid, terpines, tannin, resin and salicylic acid. Study showed all extracts with antimicrobial activity against pathogens,
scoring highest with S typhii and lowest with S aureus. The study
supports its traditional use for infections.
• Anti-lactation:
Jasmine flowers, applied to the breasts showed suppression of puerperal
lactation comparable to Bromocriptine, with significant reduction
of serum prolactin (greater than bromocriptine). Jasmine flowers offers
an inexpensive alternative to suppression of puerperal lactation.
• Phytochemicals:
Study of roots yielded dotriacontanoic acid, dotriacontanol, oleanolic acid, daucosterol and hesperidin.
• Quorum Sensing Inhibitors :
J sambac was one of several extracts in the study to show great potential as a source of microbial growth and quorum sensing inhibitors.
• Anti-Cancer :
Study evaluated a methanolic extract of J. sambac for anticancer effect against Dalton ascites lymphoma induced in Swiss albino mice in in vitro and in vivo model. Results showed significant anti-cancer properties, with dose-dependent inhibition of tumor cell proliferation with significant changes in the hematological profiles and cancer enzyme markers.
• Antioxidant :
(1) Study of methanolic extract of flower showed dose-dependent in vitro antioxidant scavenging activity. (2) Study of J. sambac using a mammalian liver slice technique in in vivo and in vitro models showed potent antioxidant effect.
• Herbicide :
Study showed a crude extract of leaves of J. sambac exhibited the highest inhibitory activity to the germination and seedling growth of Echinochloa crus-galli and Sesbania aculeate.
Availability
Cultivated for ornamental
use.
Jasmine oil in the cybermarket.
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