In homesteads The leaves yield an essential oil which possesses insecticidal properties and is laid over stored grain to keep insects away. They are antimicrobial and are smoked 7 for relief of headache and catarrh. A decoction of the leaf is used in smoke baths for the treatment
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The leaves yield an essential oil which possesses insecticidal properties and is laid over stored grain to keep insects away. They are antimicrobial and are smoked 7 for relief of headache and catarrh. A decoction of the leaf is used in smoke baths for the treatment of febrile, catarrhal and rheumatic problems. The roots are used to 4, treat dysentery. The flowers are astringent and fruits are considered vermifuge.
family
Verbenaceae
synonym
Vitex spicata Lour.
description
Shrubs or small trees; purple pubescent all over, aromatic. Leaves × 3-5-foliolate; leaflets 6-13 2-5 cm, narrowly oblong or elliptic to lanceolate, base acute, apex acuminate. Panicles terminal, 10-25 cm long. Calyx 5-toothed, obconic, ca. 3 mm long, teeth triangular. Corolla Th greenish white, deep purple to violet, ca. 7 for mm across, hypocrateriform; tube 3-5 mm long, puberulent without, upper lip 2-lobed, lower 3-lobed with the middle lobe larger, for obovate, undulate-margined, other lobes shorter, subequal, obtuse. Stamens 4, filaments purple. Ovary ca. 1 mm long; style purple; stigma 2-fid. Drupe 3-5 mm across, globose, purple or black.