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
CAMPHERENOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHERENONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR	41	Leaf	96.0	220000.0	4.68	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHORACENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHORENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHORENONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPRINALDEHYDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPROIC-ACID	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPRONALDEHYDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPRYLIC-ACID	5	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARVACROL	37	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMONOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-2,6,6-TRIMETHYL-2-VINYL-5-HDROXYTETRAHYDROFURAN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-3-HEXENOL	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-LINALOL-OXIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-OCIMENE	3	Leaf	not available	24.0	-0.74	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLIC-ACID	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLOL	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CRESOL	5	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.