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Botanical Name Vitex negundo

 
Common Name English: Chinese chaste tree.
Family Verbenaceae.
Parts Used Leaves, stems, roots, fruits and oil.
Medicinal Property A sedative, cooling, detoxifying herb that lowers fever, relieves pain, improves digestion and is expectorant and antibacterial. Internally used for malaria, poisonous bits, breast cancer and arthritis. In Ayurvedic medicine, internally for headache, catarrh and gonorrhea. Fresh leaves are burned with grass as a fumigant against mosquitoes.
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Description An aromatic large shrub or small tree of about 3 m in height with quadrangular branches; leaves opposite, exstipulate, long petioled and digitately 3-5 foliolate; all leaflets with petiolules. Fruits are globose or ovoid, four seeded drupe; black when ripe.
Distribution Throughout India, in waste lands up to 1500 m.
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