Tembelekan

(Lantana camara Linn.)
Synonym:
= Lantana aculeata = L. antillana Rafin = L. mutabilis Salisb. = L. polyacanthus SCH. = L.scabrida Soland = L.viburnoides, Blanco.

Family:
Verbenaceae

Description:
Erect shrubs or half-climbing, much branched, branches form a rectangle, there are varieties of thorns, and there are varieties that are not high barbed + 2 m. There are up to 1700 m above sea level, in the heat, is widely used as a hedge, characteristic odor. Single leaf, sitting opposite end of the oval shape tapering edge of the jagged bone pinnate leaves, the upper surface hairy with lots of rough-haired beneath the surface of the touch rare. Interest in the series that is rasemos has white, pink, orange yellow, etc.. Fruits such as fruit buni shiny black when ripe.

Local Name:
Kembang satek, saliyara, saliyere, chicken manure, dung Kotok,; cente (Sunda) telek flowers, obio, puyengan, tembelek,; tembelekan, teterapan (Java), kamanco, mainco,; tamanjho (Madura), flower fences, wood Singapore , lai chicken; (Sumatra); Wu mei se (China).;

Curable Disease:
Influenza, tuberculosis, rheumatism, vaginal discharge, coughing blood, skin pain; ulcer, swelling, itching, fever, asthma, bruises;

Utilization:
PART THAT USE: Leaves, flowers, roots, dry.

PURPOSE:
1. Roots: influenza, tuberculosis glands, rheumatik, fluorine albus (white).
2. Interest: TB with coughing up blood, asthmatis.
3. Leaves: Drug skin, ulcers, swelling, itching, fever, rheumatik, bruises.

EXTERNAL USE:
Fresh leaves are crushed and put into place a sick or boiled enough to wash the skin diseases, boils, wound bleeding, bruising, vaginal discharge.

HOW TO USE:
- Pulmonary TB with coughing up blood: 6 - 10 gr. stewed dried flowers.
- Rheumatik: roots boiled enough to shower.

CAUTION:
- Excess doses cause dizziness and vomiting.
- Pregnant women: should not be, the death of the fetus!

Composition:
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND EFFECTS pharmacological: Root: Taste sweet, cool. Fever, antidote to poison (antitoxic), relieving pain. Leaves: bitter taste, cool, smelly, somewhat poisonous (toxic). Eliminate itching (pruritus Anti), antitoxic, eliminate swelling. (anti-swelling). Flower: Taste sweet, cool, stopping bleeding (hemostatik). KANDUNGAN CHEMISTRY: Leaf: Lantadene A (0,31-0,68%), lantadene B (0.2%), lantanolic acid, acid Atlantic, humulene (containing vaporized oil from 0.16 to 0.2%), beta - caryophyllene, gamma-terpidene, alpha-pinene, p-cymene.