mallika :

Use in other system of medicine:

Edibility

- Flowers used to make jasmine tea.

- In China, flowers n are used for giving aroma to tea.

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.

- Infusion of leaves used as eyewash.

- 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 traditional Chinese medicine, used for fever, diarrhea, abdominal distention, conjunctivitis, insomnia, headache, dental caries.

- 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.

Ornamental

- A favorite floral offering and adornment for altars.

- Strung into flower necklaces.

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.