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Flower: multiple of 4 or 5

Diversity plant

Type of roots: taproot

Stem: aranged in ring

angiosferm

leaf venation: net like

Angiosferm

dicot

two cotyledon

Alkaloid...

a nitrogen-containing naturally occurring compound, produced by a large variety of organisms, including fungi, plants, animals, and bacteria.

Terpenoids...

sometimes referred to as isoprenoids, are a large and diverse class of naturally-occuring organic chemicals similar to terpenes.

Vitex negundo L.

Phytochemical Content...

commonly known as the Chinese chaste tree, five-leaved chaste tree, or horseshoe vitex, is a large aromatic shrub with quadrangular, densely whitish, tomentose branchlets. It is widely used in folk medicine, particularly in South and Southeast Asia.

Lagundi

Lagundi...

Vitex negundo...

native to tropical Eastern and Southern Africa and Asia. It is widely cultivated and naturalized elsewhere.

What are the

different ways in

which Lagundi

can be taken?

Vitex negundo...

commonly found near bodies of water, recently disturbed land, grasslands, and mixed open forests.

The leaves, flowers, roots, and seeds of the lagundi plant can be used in herbal medicine.

Lagundi tablets (300 mg) are available from the Department of Health's Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC).

A tea is made by boiling the parts of the plant and taken orally.

Nowadays, commercially Lagundi is available in capsule form and syrup for cough.

Lagundi can also be mixed together with cough medicines and other herbal remedies.

The seeds make a cooling medicine for

skin diseases and leprosy, and for inflammation of the mouth.

Flowers are astringent, carminative, hepato-protective, digestive, vermifuge and febrifuge.

The petals are of different lengths, with the middle lower lobe being the longest.

Plant is considered anti-inflammatory, astringent, antibacterial,

antifungal, analgesic, alterant, depurative, rejuvinating, stomachic.

Leaves are considered

aromatic, bitter, anti-inflammatory,

bronchial smooth

muscle relaxant, vermifuge.

2 to 8 m (6.6 to 26.2 ft)

in height.

Both the corolla and calyx are covered in dense hairs.

Roots are considered as tonic,

febrifuge, antirheumatic,

diuretic and expectorant.

The fruit is a succulent drupe, 4 mm (0.16 in) in diameter, rounded to egg-shaped.

It is black or purple when ripe

The bark is reddish-brown.

The numerous flowers are borne in panicles 10 to 20 cm (3.9 to 7.9 in) in length. Each is around

6 to 7 cm (2.4 to 2.8 in) long and are white to blue in color.

Its leaves are digitate, with five lanceolate leaflets, sometimes three. Each leaflet is around

4 to 10 cm (1.6 to 3.9 in) in length, with the central leaflet being the largest and possessing a stalk.

The leaf edges are toothed or serrated and the bottom surface is covered in hair.

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