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
Antiburn	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Anticancer	5	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Anticancer (Pancreas)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinogenic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticariogenic	6	Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticataract	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticatarrh	1	Martindale's 29th
Anticholinesterase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticholinesterase?	1	L. Gracza (1985) as cited by Buchbauer re antiacetylcholinesterase.
Anticolitic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticomplementary	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticonvulsant	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiCrohn's	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticystitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidepressant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidermatitic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antidiabetic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiarrheic	1	Wealth of India.