🏝️Filipino Traditional Medicine
Lagundi
Vitex negundo
About Lagundi
Lagundi (Vitex negundo) is a herb used in the Filipino Traditional Medicine tradition to help with Cough, Asthma, Fever, and Respiratory Issues, among 1 other condition it addresses. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Vitex negundo, commonly known as the Chinese chastetree, five-leaved chaste tree, or horseshoe vitex, is a large aromatic shrub with quadrangular, densely whitish, tomentose branchlets. It is widely used in folk medicine, particularly in South and Southeast Asia.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · internalLeaves · internal