Five-Leaved Chaste Tree

Five-Leaved Chaste Tree is a large, aromatic shrub with quadrangular, densely whitish, tomentose branchlets. It is a small, slender tree found throughout the greater part of India upto an altitude of 1,500 m.

Root, fruit (globose), flowers (bluish purple, terminal, compound, and pyramidal panicles), leaves (3-5-foliolate) and bark (thin, grey) are used as medicine. The plant acts as alterative, aromatic, vermifuge, anodyne, expectorant, emmenogogue and nervine tonic. The juice of the leaves is used for the treatment of foetid discharges.