Vitex altissima, Mayila, Mylellu, Peacock chaste tree, മയില

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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