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Medicinal

Culpeper (1649) “Jasmine flowers boiled in oil, and the grieved place bathed in it, taketh away cramps and stitches in the side: the plant is only preserved here in the gardens of some few, and because hard to come by, I pass it.”
Culpeper, Nicholas. (1650). A Physical Directory . London, Peter Cole.

Nomenclature

OTHER COMMON NAMES: COMMON WHITE JASMINE;JESSAMINE;POET'S JESSAMINE;SUMMER JASMINE;TRUE JASMINE
The Royal Horticultural Society Horticultural Database, available at www.rhs.org.uk

Notes: This is in the College’s Pharmacopoeia of 1618 as “Sambacis vel [=or] Iasmine” and Culpeper (1653) does not list it along with the flowers in his translation, except (page 44) where he describes flowers according to their ‘properties’.
(1618). Pharmacopeia Londinensis (1618). The Royal College of Physicians, London

Jasminum officinale L.

Family: OLEACEAE
Genus: Jasminum
Species: officinale L.
Common names: Jasmine
Pharmacopoeia Londinensis name: Iasmini /Sambacis
Distribution summary: Asia
Habit: Climber
Hardiness: H5 - Hardy; cold winter
Habitat: Woodland, forest margins, ravines
Garden status: Currently grown
Garden location: Pharmacopoeia Londinensis 1618 'Flowers' (HSE 1)
Reason for growing: Medicinal


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