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  1. Photos, basic scientific information, legends, myths, symbolism
  2. Basic scientific information, legends, myths, symbolism
  3. Botanical description, reference data, useful information, illustrations
  4. Recipes for use in traditional medicine and cosmetology
  5. Tips for growing, harvesting and storing

Shrub jasmine (yellow jasmine), Jasminum fruticans. Photos of the plant, basic scientific information, legends, myths, symbolism

Shrub jasmine (yellow jasmine) Shrub jasmine (yellow jasmine)

Basic scientific information, legends, myths, symbolism

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Family: Olive (Oleaceae)

Origin: The plant is native to the subtropical and tropical regions of Asia and Africa, but is also cultivated in other regions of the world.

Area: Shrub jasmine grows in India, China, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Java, Papua New Guinea, Australia and many other areas.

Chemical composition: Jasmine bush contains essential oils, in which the main component is benzyl benzoate, as well as linalool, farnesol, geraniol and other compounds.

Economic value: Jasmine shrub is grown as an ornamental plant for its beautiful, fragrant flowers. Essential oils obtained from flowers are used in the production of perfumes and cosmetics. Jasmine shrub is also used in folk medicine for the treatment of various diseases.

Legends, myths, symbolism: In Chinese culture, shrub jasmine is considered a symbol of love, beauty, and femininity. It has been depicted in Chinese paintings and utensils, and has also been used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat various ailments. In Indian culture, shrub jasmine is used as a symbol of purity, nobility and love. It is associated with the goddess Lakshmi, who symbolizes wealth and prosperity. Jasmine bush can be used as a symbol of love, beauty and femininity, as it is associated with these concepts in the culture. It can also be used as a symbol of purity, nobility and prosperity, as it is associated with wealth and prosperity in Indian culture. In some cultures, shrub jasmine can be used as a symbol of tenderness, gentleness, and comfort, as its scent is considered soothing and relaxing. In general, shrub jasmine can be used as a symbol of love, beauty, femininity, purity, nobility, prosperity, tenderness, gentleness, and comfort.

 


 

Shrub jasmine (yellow jasmine), Jasminum fruticans. Description, illustrations of the plant

Jasmine. Legends, myths, history

Shrub jasmine (yellow jasmine)

The first mention of fragrant jasmine was found in ancient Egyptian papyri.

The Greeks believed that jasmine (a kind of olive) was given to people by the goddess of wisdom, Athena.

The name "jasmine" comes from the Persian word "yasmin", which means a fragrant flower. It is also a Persian female name. The plant appears to have been introduced into Egypt before the 1000st Dynasty (about XNUMX BC).

There is a mention that the Chinese Emperor of the Sung Dynasty (960 - 1279) enjoyed the scent of jasmine growing in his palace. At the end of the XNUMXth century, jasmine was grown for the kings of Afghanistan, Nepal and Persia.

Since ancient times, jasmine has been loved for its highly decorative and medicinal qualities: bronchopulmonary diseases, colds, tuberculosis and eye diseases were treated with infusions and decoctions. In ancient times, it was believed that jasmine was brought to Earth by the goddess of wisdom to cheer up people. Interestingly, in almost all nationalities, jasmine is a female flower.

There is a very beautiful legend about jasmine. According to her, once all the flowers were white, but one day an artist appeared with a set of bright colors and offered to paint them in different colors that they wanted. Jasmine was closest to the artist; he wanted to be golden, the color of his favorite sun. But the artist did not like that the jasmine was more important than the rose, the queen of flowers, and as punishment he left him to wait until the very end, taking up the coloring of all the other flowers.

As a result, the yellow-gold paint chosen by jasmine almost all went to dandelions. Jasmine did not again ask the artist to paint him yellow, and in response to the demand to bow, he answered the following: "I prefer to break, but not bend." So he remained a white fragile jasmine.

Another legend tells that the Duke of Tuscany, who owned the only jasmine bush in Italy, forbade his gardener to give anyone his shoots.

But the gardener fell in love and gave his beloved a fragrant bouquet of jasmine branches, and the girl planted them in her garden.

Since then, Tuscan girls adorn themselves with jasmine on their wedding day. And the flower itself has become in Italy a symbol of love, which is not afraid of any barriers and prohibitions.

Among the Tatars, jasmine is considered a sacred plant, and before going to heaven, a person will be asked - did he grow jasmine?

In India, jasmine was called the "moonlight of love", girls decorated their hair with it and used it in cosmetics.

In France, pipes and flutes were made from its trunks.

In China, it was added to tea, they washed their eyes, they made an amazing cough syrup from it. It was believed that it cleanses the blood.

In magic, jasmine flowers are used in dry herb sachets to attract a loved one. Jasmine attracts pure love. Used to bewitch a loved one.

Shrub jasmine (yellow jasmine)

In rituals to increase well-being, jasmine flowers are burned or carried with them. They stimulate creativity, the birth of original ideas, strengthen self-esteem, give a sense of well-being, help to adapt to unfamiliar surroundings.

They develop extrasensory and mental abilities, if jasmine flowers are burned in the bedroom, this will contribute to the development of clairvoyant abilities - you will see prophetic dreams. In general, jasmine contributes to the purification of consciousness and immersion in the astral plane, so it is useful to inhale its aroma before going to bed.

Jasmine is the king of flowers. To such an extent that in Grasse they did not say "jasmine", but "flower".

In the language of flowers, white jasmine means "your first kiss moved me."

Jasmine is a flower of sensuality, femininity, elegance and attractiveness. In India, jasmine is called moonlight in love. Jasmine (white) - friendliness. Jasmine (yellow) - modesty, timidity. Jasmine (red) - stupidity, fun.

In China, it symbolizes femininity, sweetness, grace and attractiveness.

In Christian culture - a symbol of grace, elegance, the flower of the Virgin Mary.

Jasmine flowers are honey-bearing, and young leaves are a good seasoning for salads.

Scientists have noticed that the jasmine smell tones and excites the functions of the brain, stimulates creativity, the birth of original ideas.

Author: Martyanova L.M.

 


 

Shrub jasmine (yellow jasmine), Jasminum fruticans. Botanical description of the plant, area, methods of application, cultivation

Shrub jasmine (yellow jasmine)

Plants of the genus Jasmine should not be confused with the mock orange shrub, which is often incorrectly called jasmine.

Winter-green, in colder regions deciduous shrub up to 1,5 m high, erect, with flexible twig-like, angular-striped green branches.

Leaves trifoliate, pinnate; leaf arrangement is spiral. The leaflets are narrowly elliptical, obtuse at the apex and ciliate along the edges. Leaf blades are bare, shiny, dark green above, lighter below.

The flowers are bisexual, bright yellow, collected in semi-umbels 2-5 at the ends of the lateral branches. The corolla is bright yellow, with a narrow cylindrical tube twice as long as the calyx, with a five-parted wide limb, up to 2 cm in diameter. Stamens 2, ovary superior. Blooms in May-July.

The fruits are spherical shiny black berries 0,5-0,8 cm in diameter. Fruits in August-September. The whole plant, including the fruits, is moderately poisonous.

It grows in the Crimea (mountainous part), in the Caucasus (all regions), in Central Asia (Mountain-Turkmen region). In addition, it is found in the south of Western Europe, in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iran.

Grows on dry gravelly slopes, in thickets of bushes, on screes, in rock crevices, on limestone slopes, in coniferous and oak forests up to a height of 1650 m above sea level. Grows singly or in dense thickets.

Shrub jasmine is a pioneer in the settlement of screes, disturbed eroded slopes, prefers slopes with southern exposures. It is a characteristic component of shilyak (of its variety where hold-a-tree predominates), juniper, pistachio, communities of Pitsunda pine and Crimean pine, fluffy oak forests and tomillyars. Mesotherm, tolerates frosts down to -20 -25°C. Heliophyte, xerophyte, drought-resistant. Undemanding to the soil, grows on humus-carbonate eroded soils, calcephyte.

The plant is moderately poisonous, alkaloids were found in the bark, leaves and flowers (the maximum concentration is in the roots), and ursolic acid is found in the leaves. The whole plant contains flavonoids. Phenols and their derivative syringoside were found in the bark, fatty oil is contained in the seeds.

Branches, leaves, fruits, flowers are used for medicinal purposes.

The poison from this plant, in particular from the roots, is very dangerous. A poisoned person immediately becomes depressed, he is afraid to move, constrained and frightened. His mood is characterized by emotional swings, which is explained by the influence of plant juice on the nervous system. The alkaloids in its composition have a strong toxic effect on the brain. Basically, this action concerns the medulla oblongata, namely, the vasomotor and respiratory centers are located in it.

Decoctions of flowers and leaves of shrub jasmine are prohibited for use by pregnant women and young children, since poisons are also present in the aerial part of the plant in small concentrations. If dosages are not observed in the manufacture of preparations based on jasmine, poisoning is possible, which will manifest itself as oppressive and dull pain at the base of the brain. It will be aggravated by mental stress or smoking. If such symptoms are found, it is necessary to promptly rinse the stomach, it is advisable to drink activated charcoal at the rate of one tablet per 10 kilograms of a person's weight.

Decorative plant. Known in culture since 1570, suitable for creating borders, hedges. It is a good slope stabilizer. Medicinal. In Armenia, a decoction with added sugar was used for chronic bronchitis and bronchial asthma. Honey plant. The fruits and annual shoots have shown activity against bacteria that cause bacterial cancer of tobacco.

In medieval Armenia, a decoction of young branches, leaves (with the addition of sugar) was used for chronic bronchitis and bronchial asthma. The aqueous extract in the experiment exhibits high protistocidal activity. Extracts of branches (young), leaves, fruits in the experiment show bactericidal activity.

 


 

Jasmine. Interesting plant facts

Shrub jasmine (yellow jasmine)

Jasmine is a kind of olive, bred from an upright shrub and a climbing liana of subtropical forests. It blooms with graceful white, yellow and red flowers. During its flowering, the air is filled with a strong, far-reaching aroma. Therefore, jasmine is widely bred today by floriculture lovers.

The olive belongs to the olive family. The olive branch has long been known as a symbol of peace and prosperity.

Written references to it are found not only in Egyptian texts, but also in images on vases, amphoras, vessels for storing olive oil, found in the Knossos Palace on the island of Crete and dating back to the third and second millennia BC.

The Roman agronomist Columella in the XNUMXst century BC wrote that the peoples of the Mediterranean used olive oil not only for food and for lamps, but also for rubbing the body and anointing the hair. The olive tree is also mentioned by Homer in the Iliad.

The ancients had no doubts about the origin of the olive tree; it was given to the Greeks by the goddess of wisdom and the patroness of peaceful labor, Athena.

One day she asked Poseidon to hand over Attica to the people. Poseidon stiffened. Athena argued to the lord of the seas that it was useless to keep continents under water suitable for planting plants and cereals.

Poseidon became angry and began to throw steep waves across Attica, intending in this way to get rid of Athena. Athena laughed in response, stuck a spear in Attica, which, in front of the angry god, turned into a wonderful olive tree. Breaking off an olive branch, Athena gave it to Poseidon as a sign of reconciliation, and the lord of the seas yielded to Athena's requests. Attica was handed over to the people, and the olive branch has served as a symbol of peace ever since.

According to Christian mythology, an angel brought an olive branch to the Virgin Mary, warning her that she would give birth to a savior; An olive branch, as a message that there was land nearby, was brought to Noah in its beak by a dove during the flood.

However, scientists do not have a common opinion about the homeland and origin of the olive. Some believe that it was first introduced into culture in the Middle East, while others claim that it appeared in several places in the Mediterranean at once; still others are of the opinion that its wild variety is nothing more than a cultivated golden-leaf olive that has become wild again.

Be that as it may, the olive culture exists today in all subtropical countries. She can live from three hundred to two thousand years; over five hundred cultivars have been bred, some of which are used to preserve fruits and stems, others, in particular jasmine, for the production of oils and perfumes.

In the southern regions, jasmine is also used for gardening arbors, balconies, for decorating walls and for hedges. Some jasmine flowers open only late in the evening, and the jasmine hedge, strewn with white flowers and bathed in moonlight, then makes an indelible impression.

Shrub jasmine (yellow jasmine)

Thanks to the efforts of breeders, many varieties of jasmine with double flowers, white-variegated and golden leaves have appeared. There are also unsurpassed masterpieces of horticultural art, such as, for example, an ermine mantle with a fifty-day flowering period, whose flower garlands, smelling of strawberries, hanging from the branches, really resemble a royal mantle of snow-white ermine skins.

But the breeding plants of European flower growers turned out to be not cold-resistant enough for our climate, and domestic botanists bred their varieties Snow Storm, Airborne Assault, Arctic and even Dwarf, which, however, does not bloom, but its half-meter bushes to the very ground are strewn with such small button leaves, which, as it were, fasten the lawn carpet to the ground.

Approximately the same number of deciduous bushy mock oranges grow, which the locals tend to call jasmine. So, mock orange (common) grows in Southern and Eastern Europe; it blooms so profusely that its bushes resemble clouds resting on the ground. This plant was at one time a favorite shrub of a steam room, one of the Saka Iranian-speaking tribes, who, according to the testimony of the ancient Greek writer Ateneus, planted cemeteries with it, and for the ability of the roots to wrap tightly around fences and other plants they called it brotherly love, because, probably, In Latin, the plant is called philadelphus, which means brotherly love.

And the flower was called mock orange only in the XNUMXth century, when all kinds of pipes, flutes, and especially chibouks began to be made from its hollow stems. In France, it was also called a serengat, which in Greek means a pipe.

All jasmine, like all mock oranges, are excellent honey plants. Young leaves of mock oranges are an indispensable seasoning for salads. And jasmine oil is highly valued in international markets. It is an indispensable product for flavoring green and black teas. Scientists have proven that the smell of jasmine stimulates the functions of the brain and has a refreshing effect on a person.

Jasmine bloom time is very short. Blossoming around midnight, it smells great, but with the first rays of the sun, its delicate petals fall off. Their place is occupied by still unblown buds, which are waiting for a night's rest in order to also open, and on the second day, like moths, slowly fall to the ground.

Author: Krasikov S.

 


 

Shrub jasmine (yellow jasmine), Jasminum fruticans. Recipes for use in traditional medicine and cosmetology

cultivated and wild plants. Legends, myths, symbolism, description, cultivation, methods of application

Ethnoscience:

  • Infusion for the treatment of headaches: Pour 1 tablespoon of fresh jasmine shrub flowers with 1 cup of boiling water. Insist 10-15 minutes and strain. Take 1/2 cup 2-3 times a day.
  • Tea to strengthen the immune system: Pour 1 tablespoon of dried jasmine flowers with 1 cup boiling water. Insist 10-15 minutes and strain. Take tea 2-3 times a day to strengthen the immune system.
  • Decoction for the treatment of skin diseases: Pour 2 tablespoons of fresh jasmine shrub flowers with 2 cups of boiling water. Insist 30 minutes and strain. Use the decoction to wash the affected areas of the skin.
  • Massage oil: add a few drops of jasmine shrub essential oil to a carrier oil (such as olive oil or coconut oil). Use for massage to improve circulation and reduce pain.
  • Infusion for the treatment of insomnia: Pour 2 tablespoons of fresh jasmine shrub flowers with 2 cups of boiling water. Insist 30 minutes and strain. Take 1/2 cup before bed to improve sleep quality.

Cosmetology:

  • Mask for the face: crush a few fresh jasmine flowers and mix them with honey and milk. Apply to face for 15-20 minutes, then rinse with warm water. The mask will help moisturize and brighten the skin.
  • Face tonic: Pour 1 cup boiling water over 2 tablespoons of dried jasmine shrub flowers. Steep for 10-15 minutes, then strain and use as a facial tonic. Tonic will help refresh and moisturize the skin.
  • Hair oil: add a few drops of jasmine shrub essential oil to a carrier oil (such as olive oil or coconut oil). Apply to hair and massage into scalp to strengthen hair and stimulate growth.
  • Aromatic body spray: Mix a few drops of Jasmine shrub essential oil with water in a spray bottle. Use as an aromatic body spray to help relax and uplift your mood.

Attention! Before use, consult with a specialist!

 


 

Shrub jasmine (yellow jasmine), Jasminum fruticans. Tips for growing, harvesting and storing

cultivated and wild plants. Legends, myths, symbolism, description, cultivation, methods of application

Jasmine shrub or yellow jasmine (Jasminum fruticans) is a shrub with beautiful yellow flowers that can be used in landscaping or as an ornamental plant in the garden.

Tips for growing, harvesting and storing shrub jasmine:

Cultivation:

  • Shrub jasmine prefers sunny or semi-shady places with good drainage and fertile soil.
  • The plant can be grown both in beds and in containers.
  • The optimum temperature for growth and flowering is between 15 and 25°C.
  • Shrub jasmine does not require special care. It needs to be watered regularly when it is dry, fertilized when it is actively growing, and trimmed in spring or fall to maintain its shape.

Workpiece:

  • Jasmine shrub flowers can be used to make tea or aromatic oils.
  • The flowers should be picked in the early morning when they are not yet fully open and air-dried or in the shade.
  • Dried flowers can be stored in glass jars or bags in a cool and dry place for up to 1 year.

Storage:

  • Dried shrub jasmine flowers should be stored in a dry, cool place protected from sunlight.
  • It is best to use glass or ceramic containers that can be hermetically sealed.
  • The storage of shrub jasmine should not exceed one year, as its aromatic properties deteriorate over time.

Jasmine shrub is a beautiful and well maintained plant that can be used as an ornamental plant in the garden or as a source of healing properties in folk medicine. However, to obtain its medicinal properties, it is necessary to follow certain rules for growing, harvesting and storage.

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