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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
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 *
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
Vasodilator 4 Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Vermifuge 2 Duke, 1992 *
Verrucolytic 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Vibriocide 1 Wealth of India.
Vulnerary 4 Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor 2 Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 1772.