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Lagundi
Scintific name: Vitex negundo
Tagalog: Kamalan
English: Five- leaved chaste tree
Chinese: Huang ching
Spanish: Agno- casto

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Botany
Erect

branched tree or
shrub

2-5 m high
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Botany
usually 5-foliate, rarely
with 3 leaflets
Leaflets lanceolate
4-10 cm long
slightly hairy beneath

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Botany
Panicles terminal
 slightly hairy
many-flowered
10-20 cm long

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Botany
Fruitglobose
 black when ripe
 about 4 mm in
diameter.

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History
Faher Clain
- Made the first record of the use
of lagundi as medicine.
- Lagundi as vulnerary.
 Father de Sta. Maria

- contributes some information

regarding the uses of the
parts of the plant.
- leaves in decoction were
useful externally
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Facts
Studies have shown that
Lagundi can prevent the
body's production of
leukotrienes, which are
released during an asthma
contains Chrysoplenol D,
attack
a substance with anti-
histamine and muscle
relaxant properties.
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Distribution
Widely distributed in
the Philippines;
flowering year round
Best propagated by use
of mature, leafless
stem cuttings.

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Parts utilized
Leaves
Aromatic,
bitter, anti-
inflammato
ry,
bronchial
smooth
muscle
relaxant,
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vermifuge.
Parts utilized
Flowers
astringent,
carminative,
hepatoprotecti
ve digestive,
vermifuge and
febrifuge.

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Parts utilized
Fruit
nervine,
cephalic,
aphrodisia
c,
emmenagog
ue and
vermifuge.
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Parts utilized
Root
tonic,
febrifuge,
antirheuma
tic, diuretic
and
expectorant

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 How to prepare?

● Decoction- boiling
of leaves and
taking the extract
orally.
● Pounding- the
leaves are
pounded and the
paste produced
by the leaves are
applied to the
affected part
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● Paultice- tapal
Terminologies

Tonic- healthy muscular condition

Febrifuge- antipyretic
Expectorant- promotes expulsion of
mucus from respiratory tracts
Vermifuge- antihelminthic (expels
parasitic worms)
Astringents- shrink or constrict body
tissues
Carminative- antiflatulence

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Terminologies

Hepatoprotective- protects liver

Nervine- acts therapeutically upon
nerves, particularly in the sense of
sedative that serves to calm ruffled
nerves.
Aphrodisiac- for sexual arousal
Emmenagogue- promotes menstrual
discharge
Lactogogue- promotes milk let- down
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