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
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 *

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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 *