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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
LIMONENE 60 Leaf 48.0 120.0 -0.32 Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL 0 Plant 5520.0 22800.0 4.72 Duke, 1992 *
LINALYL-ACETATE 7 Leaf 48.0 14400.0 2.05 Duke, 1992 *
MESITYLOXIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-EUGENOL 20 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-FURFURYL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-ISOBUTYL-KETONE 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-VINYL-KETONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE 22 Leaf 48.0 96.0 -0.14 Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTINALDEHYDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-ENANTHIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-HEXANOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-HEXYLALDEHYDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NERAL 4 Leaf not available 5.0 -0.39 Duke, 1992 *
NEROL 10 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NEROLIDOL 11 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NERYL-ACETATE 5 Leaf 0.0 528.0 0.13 Duke, 1992 *
ORTHODENE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE 16 Leaf not available 5.0 -0.40 Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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.