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 Latin nameJasminum grandiflorum L.
 FamilyOleaceae
 Identified with (Lat)Jasminum officinale forma grandiflorum (L.) Kobuski
 Identified with (Skt)jātī, mālatī
 Identified with (Hin)jātī, camelī
 Identified with (Ben)mālatī, cāmeli, jāti
 Identified with (Tam)cātippū, koṭimallikai, picci
 Identified with (Mal)piccakamulla, piccakam
 Identified with (Eng)Common jasmine, Spanish jasmine, Catalonian jasmine
 Botanical infoAn evergreen shrub, white pleasantly fragrant flowers, grows all over India up to 2500m elevation, also cultivated as ornamental plant.
 Search occurrencejātī, mālatī, mālatī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 See plant's imageJasminum grandiflorum L. in Google image search
 Encyclopedias &
 Dictionaries

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 418)
jātI, f. = -ti q.v.; Jasminum grandiflorum Hariv. 7891 Bhartṛ. BhP. x Amar. [418,2]; mace, nutmeg Suśr. VarBṛS.

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 814)
mālatī, f. Jasminum Grandiflorum (plant and blossom; it bears fragrant white flowers which open towards evening) Kāv. Var. Suśr.; Bignonia Suaveolens W.; Echites Caryophyllata L.; another species of plant (= viśalyā) L.; a bud, blossom L.; -kāca-mālī (?) L.; a maid, virgin L.; moonlight or night L.; N. of various metres Col.; of a river VarBṛS.; of a woman (the heroine of the drama Mālatī-mādhava q.v.); of Kalyāṇa-malla's comm. on Megha-dūta.

Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 1368)
cātippū: 1. Mace, as the nutmeg flower; 2. Flower of Jasminum grandiflorum

Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 1136)
koṭimallikai: 1. Arabian jasmine; 2. Large-flowered jasmine

Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 2646)
picci: 01 1. Large flowered jasmine; 2. Trichotomous-flowering smooth jasmine; 3. Cananga flowering tree
02 1. Fem. Of crazy woman; 5. A female devil
03 crazy person
04 sweet water-melon

Dymock, Warden, Hooper: Pharmacographia Indica (vol. II, p. 378)
Jasminum grandiflorum, Oleaceae
J. grandiflorum, Spanish Jasmine or Chambeli, is cultivated almost everywhere in India. The Sanskrit name is Jāti; from the flowers a perfumed oil is prepared which is a favourite perfume amongst the Hindus. Their physicians prescribe the leaves as a remedy in skin diseases, ulcers of the mouth, otorrhoea, &c. Chakradatta mentions the use of the fresh juice of the leaves an an application to soft corns, and of an oil prepared with it in otorrhoea. In the Bhavaprakāsa the leaves are recommended to be chewed by those who suffer from ulceration of the mucous membrane of the mouth.
Mahometan writers consider the plant to have deobstruent, anthelmintic, diuretic and emmenagogue properties. MÄŤr Muhammad Husain mentions the use of the flowers applied in the form of plaster to the lions and pubes as an aphrodisiac. He classes J. grandiflorum along with several other kinds of Jasmine under the name of YasmÄŤn.
Jasminum sambac (vol. II, p. 379)
The Mogra, J. Sambac, is considered to have the same properties as J. grandiflorum. In the Pharmacopoeia of India the flowers, upon the authority of Mr. J. Wood, are said to have considerable power as a lactifuge; he speaks of them as effectual in arresting the secretion of milk in the puerperal state, in cases of threatened abscess. For this purpose about two or three handfuls of the flowers are bruised and applied to the breasts and renewed once or twice a day. The secretion is sometimes arrested in twenty-four hours, though generally a longer time is required. Mr. Wood speaks of this practice as being well known in Madras.
The wild single variety, called Vikhmogra or Vishmogra (Rheede vi., 56), is used an an emmenagogue.


 
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