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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
O-ANISALDEHYDE 1 Plant *
O-METHOXYCINNAMALDEHYDE 6 Bark Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
O-METHYL-COUMARALDEHYDE 0 Bark Wealth of India.
OCTANOIC-ACID 5 Plant *
OPC 25 Bark Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
P-CYMENE 16 Plant *
PHENOL 26 Plant *
PHENOLS 0 Bark 27.0 335.0 -1.00 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
PHENOLS 0 Leaf 225.0 560.0 -0.44 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
PHENYL-ETHYL-ALCOHOL 0 Plant *
PHENYLETHYL-ACETATE 0 Plant *
PHENYLPROPYL-ACETATE 0 Plant *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Bark 1000.0 -0.18 *
POTASSIUM 14 Bark 3020.0 15500.0 2.05 *
PROCYANIDIN-A-2 17 Bark *
PROCYANIDIN-B-1 1 Bark *
PROCYANIDIN-B-2 1 Bark *
PROCYANIDIN-B-5 0 Bark *
PROCYANIDIN-B-7 0 Bark *
PROCYANIDIN-B26C-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Bark Wealth of India.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Trichomonistat 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Trypsin-Enhancer 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-93.
Tumor-Promoter 1 *
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor 5 *
Ubiquiot 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic 3 Phytotherapy Research, 4: 93.
Uricosuric 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant 1 Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Varroacide 1 *
Vasoconstrictor 1 Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
Vasodilator 9 *
Venotonic 1 *
Vermifuge 2 *
Vibriocide 1 *
Vulnerary 6 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor 6 *