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Plant Cinnamomum camphora (Lauraceae)

Common Names
Camphor; Ho Leaf
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
CUBENOL 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CUMIN-ALCOHOL 1 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CUMINALDEHYDE 10 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN 7 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROCUMINYL-ALCOHOL 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROEUGENOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DIMETHYLMATAIRESINOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DIMETHYLSECOISOLARICIRESINOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DIPENTENE 7 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EO 0 Leaf 5000.0 10000.0 -0.14 Duke, 1992 *
EPICAMPHERONOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EPICUBENOL 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-GUAIACOL 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-PHENOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL 76 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Seed not available 420000.0 0.81 Duke, 1992 *
FENCHENE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FIBER 15 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FORMIC-ACID 13 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FURFURAL 6 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
P450-Inducer 3 Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Parasiticide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Pediculicide 3 Merck 11th Edition
Perfume 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Perfumery 33 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Peristaltic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide 45 Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Photosensitizer 1 Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.
Pigment 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Preservative 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Proliferant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 2 Chen, S. J., Wang, M. H., Chen, I. J. 1996. Antiplatelet and Calcium Inhibitory Properties of Eugenol and Sodium Eugenol Acetate. Gen Pharmacol, 27(4): 629-633.