Medicinal Plants by Physician Lee Song Cheong & Bro. Ooi Chooi Seng The Jasmine The Rose Jasmine The Chinese and the Thai use the dried flowers as a cardiac tonic, treatment for faintness, anti pyretic, and is a major ingredient in the famous and popular Thai traditional medicine "Ya Horm". The Chinese and Arabs also use the dried flowers in Jasmine tea. The Chinese use a decoction of the flower as The Common Jasmine a cure for poor digestion, mild stomach due to stale food or fruits, and as a carminative. The decoction is also use as a drink to treat sore eyes and use externally as a wash for sore eyes. The flowers are soaked in herbal oil and use as a ear drop for ear infections. Jasmine Flower Buds Apart form medicinal uses, the plant is a very popular garden plant because of its easy flowering and nice fragrance. The flowers are also frequently used in the perfume and aeromatic oil industry. The flower buds keep well after cutting. Fresh flowers are popular as flower offerings in Buddhist and Hindu temples. The flower buds which are more fragrant than the flowers, are traditionally used by ladies to decorate their hair. It is also made into garlands. Many also use the flowers to freshen and scent the air in their rooms and cars.                     The Plant The plant is a small bush up to one meter high and and is the native of Arabia and Persia. The white flowers are in clusters. The flowers has a delicate fragrant scent. The sweet scent is strongest in the early part of the night. Grows well in full sun. The plant needs to be pruned regulary to keep it in shape Flower and Buds Can be planted from cuttings of young wood or by layering. Lord Buddha used this flower to provide analogies on his teachings by using it to compare its fragrance to cultivations such as good moral and virtues, Dhammapada Nos #54 & #55. Na pupphagandho pativatam eti Na candanam tagaramallika va Satan ca gandho pativatam eti Sabba disa sappuriso pavati Sakyamurni Buddha, Dhammapada No. #54 The perfume of flowers blows not against the wind, nor does the fragrance of sandalwood, tagara and jasmine, but the fragrance of a virtuous one, pervades in all directions. The fragrance of flowers can only travel with the wind, but the fragrance of good virtue goes everywhere. Candanam tagaram va pi Uppalam atha vassiki Etesan gandhajatanam Silagandho anuttaro Sakyamurni Buddha, Dhammapada No. #55 Sandalwood, tagara, lotus and jasmine, Above all these kinds of fragrance, The perfume of virtue, Is by far the best. Among the fragrance of scented flowers, the fragrance of virtue, is the most superior. Jasmine Flower     Scientific name: Jasiminum sambac (Linn.) W. Alt. Common name: The Jasmine, Chinese name: Mo Li   Thai name: Mali Laa   Tamil name: Malligai Rose Jasmine Flower, Jasiminum sambac var. Duke of Tuscany Jasiminum azoricum Jasiminum azoricum Jasiminum sambac Jasiminum bifarium Jasiminum azoricum Jasiminum sambac J. sambac var. multi-petalium click to print this article   back to medicinal plants archive   back to articles archive   back to e-zine main

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