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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
PROCYANIDIN-B28-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Bark Wealth of India.
PROCYANIDIN-C-1 0 Bark *
PROCYANIDINS 27 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
PROTEIN 0 Bark 43000.0 -1.34 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Bark 1.0 2.0 -0.37 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RUBIDIUM 0 Bark 30.0 1.21 *
SABINENE 5 Plant *
SAFROLE 29 Plant *
SALICYALDEHYDE 0 Bark *
SALICYLIC-ACID 34 Plant *
SODIUM 1 Bark 42.0 287.0 -0.13 *
STRONTIUM 0 Bark 50.0 -1.35 *
STYRENE 3 Plant *
SULFUR 14 Bark 1200.0 -0.13 *
TANNIN 35 Bark Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
TANNIN 35 Plant *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Plant *
TERPINOLENE 9 Plant *
THIAMIN 31 Bark 1.0 -0.09 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
TITANIUM 0 Bark 50.0 1.51 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiperiodontitic 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiperoxidant 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antipharyngitic 1 *
Antiphotophobic 2 Martindale's 29th
Antipityriasic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiplaque 3 Martindale's 29th
Antiplasmodial 2 *
AntiPMS 4 *
Antipneumonic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipodagric 1 *
Antipodriac 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipoliomyelitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiporphyric 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiprolactin 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiproliferant 2 Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antiprostaglandin 2 *
Antiprostatitic 2 Martindale's 29th
Antiproteolytic 1 *
Antipseudomonic 1 *
Antipsittacotic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.