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Specimen profile
Arabian Jasmine
Jasminum sambac · Oleaceae
Skt · Mallika — “Queen of fragrant night blossoms”Hindi · MograMal · KudamullaTam · Gundu Malli
An intensely fragrant flowering shrub renowned in Ayurveda for cooling burning sensations, fevers, and inflamed skin conditions.
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Jasminum sambac is a scrambling or erect evergreen shrub widely cultivated across the Indian subcontinent for its exquisite floral fragrance. In Ayurvedic texts, its cool white blossoms are classified under Pushpa Varga and valued as natural pitta-pacifying dravyas. The flowers and leaves serve as classical remedies to assuage chronic dermatitis, ulcers, and pruritus.
Identification markers
Opposite, ovate to elliptic glossy green leaves; clusters of intensely fragrant, pure white, star-like flowers with 5-9 lobes; small black berries.
Rasa
Tikta, Kashaya
Guna
Laghu, Snigdha
Virya
Sheeta
Vipaka
Katu
Prabhava
Vranaropana
Dosha effect
PK- V+
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