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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
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Leaf 35.0 70.0 -0.24 Duke, 1992 *
GERANIAL 13 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL 35 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETATE 5 Leaf 0.0 600.0 2.21 Duke, 1992 *
GUAJAZULENE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HELIOTROPIN 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HINOKIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HOTRIENOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HUMULENE 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOBUTYRIC-ACID 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOVALERALDEHYDE 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
JUNENOL 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KUSUNOKININ 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KUSUNOKIOL 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KUSUNOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LAURIC-ACID 7 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LAURIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LAUROLITSIN 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LEUCOCYANIDIN 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antilaryngitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiLegionella 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antileishmanic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic 3 Life Sciences 55: 1061.
Antileukotriene 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antilisteria 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic? 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphocytic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial 3 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antimelanogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanomic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antimetastatic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimetastatic (Stomach) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimitotic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antimutagenic 7 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antimyocarditic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antineuralgic 1 Martindale's 28th