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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
CAMPHERENOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHERENONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR 41 Leaf 96.0 220000.0 4.68 Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHORACENE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHORENE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHORENONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAPRINALDEHYDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAPROIC-ACID 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAPRONALDEHYDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAPRYLIC-ACID 5 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARVACROL 37 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMONOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CIS-2,6,6-TRIMETHYL-2-VINYL-5-HDROXYTETRAHYDROFURAN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CIS-3-HEXENOL 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CIS-LINALOL-OXIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CIS-OCIMENE 3 Leaf not available 24.0 -0.74 Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLIC-ACID 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLOL 15 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CRESOL 5 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
Termitifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosterone-Hydroxylase-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 2 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 2 Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Toxic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Tracheorelaxant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Tranquilizer 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal 7 Duke, 1992 *
Tremorigenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonicide 7 Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonistat 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Trypsin-Enhancer 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-93.
Tumor-Promoter 1 Duke, 1992 *
Tumorigenic 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor 4 Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ulcerogenic 3 HerbalGram No. 20, page 9.
Uterotrophic 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Varroacide 1 Duke, 1992 *