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.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
GAMMA-TERPINENE	11	Leaf	35.0	70.0	-0.24	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIAL	13	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL	35	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETATE	5	Leaf	0.0	600.0	2.21	Duke, 1992 *
GUAJAZULENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HELIOTROPIN	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HINOKIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HOTRIENOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HUMULENE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBUTYRIC-ACID	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVALERALDEHYDE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JUNENOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KUSUNOKININ	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KUSUNOKIOL	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KUSUNOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAURIC-ACID	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAURIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAUROLITSIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCOCYANIDIN	1	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.