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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Cinnamomum aromaticum (Lauraceae)

Common Names
Cassia; Cassia Bark; Cassia Lignea; Chinese Cassia; Chinese Cinnamon; China Junk Cassia; Saigon Cinnamon; Zimtcassie (Ger.); Canela de la China (Sp.); Canelero chino (Sp.); Chinazimt (Ger.); Chinesischer Zimtbaum (Ger.); Kashia-Keihi (Jap.); Canelle de Cochinchine (Fr.); Cannelier Casse (Fr.); Cannelier de Chine (Fr.)
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
CUMINALDEHYDE 10 Plant *
DECANOIC-ACID 3 Plant *
DIHYDROCINNAMIC-ACID 0 Plant *
EO 0 Bark 2000.0 25000.0 1.22 *
EO 0 Leaf 3100.0 7700.0 -0.34 Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
EPICATECHIN 40 Bark *
EPICATECHIN-(4-BETA->8)5-EPICATECHIN 0 Bark Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
ETHYL-CINNAMATE 2 Plant *
ETHYL-GUAIACOL 0 Plant *
EUGENOL 76 Bark 1.8 375.0 -0.69 *
EUGENOL 76 Leaf 2.8 400.0 -0.77 *
EUGENOL 76 Plant *
FARNESOL 17 Plant *
FAT 0 Bark 35000.0 1.17 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FENCHONE 6 Leaf Wealth of India.
FENCHONE 6 Plant *
FIBER 15 Bark 270000.0 1.05 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FURFURAL 6 Plant *
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Plant *
GERANIAL 13 Plant *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 3 *
Anthelmintic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiacetylcholinesterase 7 *
Antiacne 7 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrodermatitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiadenomic 2 *
Antiaflatoxin 1 *
AntiAGE 2 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant 10 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 343.
Antiaging 3 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 4 Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiallergenic 1 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Antiallergic 7 J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialopecic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antialzheimeran 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antialzheimeran? 2 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antianaphylactic 5 *
Antiandrogenic 1 Planta Medica, 56(6): 671, 1990.
Antianemic 3 Martindale's 29th