Natural products plays a major role in the drug discovery and development for new pharmaceuticals, as clinically useful drugs, as starting materials to produce synthetic drugs, or as lead compounds from which a totally synthetic drug can be designed. Several Chemical compounds have been extracted and identified from its specie known as Lantana camara (L .camara). In view of the fact that ancient time, plants have been a tremendous source of medicine. Since very long time Lantana camara is reported to be used in traditional medicine system for the treatment of itches, cuts, ulcers, swellings, bilious fever, cataract, eczema and rheumatism. Different parts of the plants are used in the treatment of cold, headache, chicken pox, eye injuries, whooping cough, asthma, bronchitis and arterial hypertension. The present review is an effort to give a detailed survey of the literature on its, phytochemistry, traditional uses and therapeutically studies.
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