Description: perennial herbs or bush (up to 2 meters) sometimes prickly, from the tropical regions of America and Africa. Widely cultivated (annual in temperate climates), for their clusters of red, orange or yellow flowers. Poisonous fruit looking like a berry. Becoming invasive in many countries.

Parts used: leaves

Constituents: leaves : essential oil (terpenes and terpenoids, caryophyllene), fruit : toxic triterpene= lantadene

Actions: antipyretic, antalgic, antiseptic

Main indications: internal uses (fever, rhumatoid pains, flu-like viral infections), external uses (herbal bath for children(to lower fever, treat cutaneous infections, also scabies and insect bites))

Contra indications: poisonous fruit : parasympatholytic poisoning. Lantana are not eaten by animals and become invasive

Drug: leaves infusion and decoction, bath

Description: small evergreen tree from the tropical pacific region and south east Asia, often near the shores; large bright leaves, "grenade-like" fruit, yellow when mature with a foul cheesy taste and odor

Parts used: fruit, root

Constituents: anthraquinones, beta sisterol, capraic and caprylic acid, vitamin A and C, may be proxeronine

Actions: immune enhancing, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, may be antitumoral, antiviral

Main indications: rhumatoid pains, possible adjuvant to cancer and leukemia therapy

Contra indications: not properly investigated

Drug: fruit's juice, and fruit's extracts