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Lantana camara

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 4 constituent measurements and 8 adverse-effect records for Lantana camara. This page reports what those source records contain and how to reach them. It carries no effect estimate, no dose and no recommendation.

Accepted name in source: Lantana camara L.

4Constituent measurements

8Safety records

7Cited sources

2Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 2 licensed products naming Lantana camara as a medicinal ingredient, matched on the exact Latin binomial. A licence records that a product met the regulator's requirements for sale in Canada. It is not evidence that the product works.

Source material stated

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What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Effect types

Target tissues

Recorded constituents

What analytical work has found in this species, at which plant part and preparation. A measured constituent is a fact about material, not about effect.

Substance	Plant part	Preparation	Concentration	Analytical method	Source
Cyanide	Leaves	Solvent extraction	12.7 Milligram/kilogram	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	No resolvable identifier
Nitrites	Leaves	Solvent extraction	9.5 Milligram/gram	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	No resolvable identifier
Oxalates	Leaves	Solvent extraction	0.148 Percent	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	No resolvable identifier
Phytic acid	Leaves	Solvent extraction	15.99 Percent	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	No resolvable identifier

Recorded adverse effects

Adverse effects reported in the source literature, most often in animal or laboratory models at a stated preparation and dose.

Effect	Target tissue	Plant part	Preparation	Test organism	Test type	Source
Hemopoietic	Blood coagulation	Unspecified	—	Cattle (as animal)	Case report	Resolve DOI
Hepatotoxicity	Liver	Leaves	Solvent extraction	Guinea pig (as animal)	Short-term toxicity	Resolve DOI
Digestive	Digestive	Fruit unspecified	—	Human (as organism)	Case report	No resolvable identifier
Hepatotoxicity	Liver	Unspecified	—	Goat (as animal)	Case report	No resolvable identifier
Hepatotoxicity	Liver	Aerial part of plants	—	Cattle (as animal)	Short-term toxicity	No resolvable identifier
Hepatotoxicity	Liver	Aerial part of plants	—	Cattle (as animal)	Short-term toxicity	No resolvable identifier
Immunotoxicity	Cardiovascular / haematological: lymph nodes	Leaves	Powder	Sheep (as animal)	Subchronic	No resolvable identifier
Nephrotoxicity	Urogenital: kidneys	Unspecified	—	Goat (as animal)	Case report	No resolvable identifier

Cited sources

The literature the compendium cites for this species. Metatron Health has no relationship with these authors or journals and earns nothing from citing them.

Abatan, M. O., Arowolo, R. O., Olurunsogo, O. O. Phytochemical analysis of some commonly occurring poisonous plants in Nigerian pastures . Tropical veterinarian, 1997, vol. 15, no. 1-2, p. 49-54.
Carstairs Shaun D., Luk Joyce Y., Tomaszewski Christian A., Cantrell F Lee. Ingestion of Lantana camara is not associated with significant effects in children. Pediatrics, 2010, p. e1585-e1588.
Fourie, N., Van der Lugt, J J., Newsholme, S J., Nel, P W. Acute Lantana camara toxicity in cattle.. Journal of the South African Veterinary Association, 1987, vol. 58, no. 4, p. 173-8.
Sharma, O.P., Makkar, H.P.S., Pal, R.N., Negi, S.S. Fragility of erythrocytes in animals affected by lantana poisoning. Clinical Toxicology, 1981, vol. 18, no. 1, p. 25-35. DOI
Ide, A., Tutt, CLC. Acute Lantana camara poisoning in a Boer goat kid. Journal of the south african veterinary association-tydskrif van die suid-afrikaanse veterinere vereniging, 1998, vol. 69, no. 1, p. 30-32.
Parimoo, H.A., Sharma, R., Patil, R.D., Patial, V. Sub-acute toxicity of lantadenes isolated from Lantana camara leaves in guinea pig animal model. Comparative Clinical Pathology, 2015. DOI
Ganai, G N., Jha, G J. Immunosuppression due to chronic Lantana camara, L. toxicity in sheep.. Indian journal of experimental biology, 1991, vol. 29, no. 8, p. 762-6.

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A constituent measurement is a fact about material at a stated preparation, not a statement about what that material does in a person. An adverse-effect or genotoxicity record is an observation reported in a source, most often in an animal or laboratory model. Neither is a Metatron Health conclusion about causality, human risk or benefit, and the absence of a record is not proof that a preparation is safe. Nothing here is diagnosis, prescribing or individual medical care.

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