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
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.
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 *