Plant Cinnamomum camphora (Lauraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Camphor; Ho Leaf

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
AZULENE	10	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-BISABOLOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Leaf	not available	5.0	-0.33	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-HEXANAL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-MYRCENE	2	Leaf	60.0	120.0	-0.46	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Leaf	140.0	280.0	-0.02	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SELINENE	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BISABOLENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL	35	Leaf	0.0	290.0	-0.12	Duke, 1992 *
CADINADIENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CADINENE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CADINENOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CADINEOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL-GLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHAZULENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Leaf	not available	5.0	-0.19	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Hemolytic	1	Martindale's 28th
Hemostat	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hepatocarcinogenic	2	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Hepatomagenic	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	5	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoregenerative	2	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Hepatotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hepatotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	12	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Histamine-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Histaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	2	Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.
Hypercholesterolemic	2	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperthermic	1	HerbalGram No. 22 - Spring 1990, page 45.
Hypocholesterolemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic?	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoglycemic	1	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypotensive	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hypothermic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.