Sampagita de China (Tag., Span.)

Botany
Sampagitang-sunsong is a climbing shrub 2 to 5 meters high. Stems are spirally twisted, covered with hairs. Leaves are ovate, 4 to 9 cm long, pointed at the tip and heart-shaped at the base. Flowers are white, fragrant, borne in dense, terminal, and crowded heads (cymes), 7 to 10 cm in diameter. Calyx is hairy, with linear lobes, and 5 to 6 cm long. Corolla is about 1.5 cm long, divided into 7 to 9 lobes which are spreading, oblong, and 1.5 to 1.8 mm in length.

Distribution
Cultivated in Manilar and larger towns for ornamental purposes and for its fragrant flowers.
Nowhere spontaneous.

Parts used
Leaves, roots, flowers.

Uses
Folkloric
Dried leaves, soaked in water, used as poultice for indolent ulcers.
Root is used as an antidote for snake bites.
Flowers used as lactifuge.
Root of the wild variety used as emmenagogue.

Studies
• Secoiridoid Lactones / Jasmolactones / Vasodilating / Cardiotropic: Study isolated four secoiridoid lactones - jasmolactones A,B, C, and D from the aerial part of J multiflorum. Pharmacologic testing showed B and D to possess coronary vasodilating and cardiotropic activities.

Availability
Wild-crafted.

Additional Sources and Suggested Readings
(1)
Novel secoiridoid lactones from Jasminum multiflorum / Shen YC, Chen CH / J Nat Prod. 1989 Sep-Oct;52(5):1060-70.