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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.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
TERPINEN-1-OL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Leaf 135.0 270.0 -0.19 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Leaf not available 24.0 -0.20 Duke, 1992 *
TRAGETONOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-LINALOL-OXIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-OCIMENE 0 Leaf not available 24.0 -0.87 Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN 28 Wood 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