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Plant Cinnamomum camphora (Lauraceae)

Common Names
Camphor; Ho Leaf
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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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.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hypouricemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunosuppressant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Inflammatory 1 Duke, 1992 *
Inhalant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
iNOS-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Insect-Repellent 2 Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide 6 Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge 19 Bowers, W.S., Ortego, F., You, X., and Evans, P.H. Insect Repellents From The Chinese Prickly Ash Zanthoxylum bungeanum. Journal of Natural Products, 56(6): 935-938, 1993.
Insectifuge? 1 Martindale's 28th
Insectiphile 4 Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
Insulinogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 27 Duke, 1992 *
JNK-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.