Jasmine (Malligai)
Jasminum sambac
About Jasmine (Malligai)
Jasmine (Malligai) (Jasminum sambac) is a herb used in the Siddha Medicine tradition to help with Stress, Headache, Skin Health, and Lactation. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Jasminum sambac, the Arabian jasmine, is a species of jasmine native to a small region in the eastern Himalayas in Bhutan and neighbouring India and Pakistan. It is cultivated in many places, especially across much of South and Southeast Asia. It is naturalised in many scattered locales: Mauritius, Madagascar, the Maldives, Cambodia, Indonesia, Christmas Island, Chiapas, Central America, southern Florida, the Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and the Lesser Antilles.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist