Vitex TRIFOLIA L. f.
| Synonym : | Vitex bicolor Willd. Vitex indica Mill. Vitex paniculata Lam. Vitex triphylla Royle. |
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| Bangla Name : | Panisamalu, Chhoto Nishinda, Kowa-nouda, Niramizhechi, Khupaninda (Chakma). |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Verbenaceae |
| Disease : | Rheumatic pains, inflammation,sprains,intermittent fever,cancer,hydrocele, stomachache,vomiting. |
| Description : | An aromatic shrub or small tree. Leaves simple and 3-foliate, leaflets 2.5-7 cm long, obovate, tip obtuse or blunt, base rounded or cuneate, glabrous above, matted with grayish tomentum beneath. Flowers purplish blue, in white tomentose, panicles. Fruit a drupe about 5 mm across, ellipsoid, black when ripe. |
| Distribution : | Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar and other coastal districts. |
| Chemical Constituents : | An essential oil and alkaloids have been isolated from the leaves and bark of this plant. Particularly leaves contain flavones, artemetin and 7-desmethyl artemetin and some non-flavonoid components. The major monoterpenes found in the leaf oil are 1,8-cin |
| Uses : | Leaves possess anthelmintic and insecticidal properties, used chiefly in rheumatic pains, inflammation and sprains, infusion of the powdered leaves are given in intermittent fever. Extract of the leaves possesses antitubercular and anticancer activity. Le |
| Habit : | Small tree |