Vitex altissima L.f.
- Family: Lamiaceae
- Vernacular names: Mayila, Mylellu, മയില (Malayalam), Peacock chaste tree (English), Atulam (Sanskrit), Myrole (Hindi), Mayilaadi (Tamil)
- Distribution: India, Indo-China, Malesia and Sri Lanka
- Description: Large trees. Leaves compound, trifoliolate, opposite, estipulate. Flowers bisexual, white, tinged with blue, in terminal panicles. Fruit a drupe, globose; seeds 4, obovate.
- Habit: Tree
- Habitat: Moist deciduous and semi-evergreen forests, also in sacred groves
- Flowering & Fruiting: March-July
- Parts used: Leaves, bark and fruits
- Properties & Uses: Fruits are carminative and digestive. Fruits are used for the treatment of stomatitis, cardiac diseases, anorexia, blindness, leprosy and worm infestation. Bark juice is used to treat rheumatic swellings and chest pains.
- Systems of Medicines: Folk, Unani,
- Traditional Uses:Crushed bark juice externally applied to relieve rheumatic swellings and body pain.
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