VITEX AGNES-CASTUS

FAMILY :: VERBENACEAE
VITEX, MONK’S PEPPER: An aromatic shrub or small tree to 20 feet, native to Southern Europe. Used in gynecological medicine and as an anaphrodisiac for men. Monks once used the ground seeds to keep them from ‘temptation.’ Or from at least one temptation. Modern religious clerics don’t seem to any longer have a need to resist this tempation.