Scientific Name: Jasminum sambac Linn.

Description:
• 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.
• Adopted as the national flower of the Philippines.

Traditional Uses:
• Fever or cough: Take decoction of flowers or leaves as needed.
• Ulcers: Pound flowers or leaves and apply on affected areas.
• Fever, abdominal distention, and diarrhea: use 3 to 6 gm of dried flowers or leaves, combined with other drug materials, use in decoction form.
• Reddening and swelling pain in the eye, use decoction of dried flowers as eyewash.
• Sprains and fractures: use root material in combination with other drugs and apply as external poultice.
• Flavor: Use flowers to flavor tea.
• Lactifuge: Bruised leaves are applied to the breasts.

Excerpts from: "An illustrated compilation of Philippine medicinal plants by Godofredo Stuart"