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Plant Cinnamomum sieboldii (Lauraceae)

Common Names
Japanese Cinnamon
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
(+)-CATECHIN 30 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN 38 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BARIUM 0 Bark not available 55.0 -0.57 Duke, 1992 *
BARIUM 0 Root Bark not available 80.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
BROMINE 0 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BROMINE 0 Root Bark not available 5.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM 28 Bark not available 14000.0 -0.45 Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM 28 Root Bark not available 9000.0 -0.79 Duke, 1992 *
CHLORINE 7 Bark not available 200.0 0.09 Duke, 1992 *
CHLORINE 7 Root Bark not available 300.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM 24 Root Bark not available 2.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
COPPER 12 Bark not available 7.0 0.07 Duke, 1992 *
COPPER 12 Root Bark not available 9.0 -0.15 Duke, 1992 *
EPICATECHIN 40 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
IODINE 12 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
IODINE 12 Root Bark not available 4.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Root Bark not available 200.0 -0.40 Duke, 1992 *
LEAD 0 Bark not available 8.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
LEAD 0 Root Bark not available 9.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE 14 Bark not available 360.0 1.73 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
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 2 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Memorigenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Mucogenic 1 Li, K.M. Effect of zinc sulphate on acetic acid-induced gastric ulceration in rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 657-659, 1990.
Neuroprotective 1 Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Osteogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Pancreatogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Parasiticide 1 Martindale's 29th
Peroxynitrite-Scavenger 1 Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide 5 Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Prooxidant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Propecic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Protisticide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Reverse-Transcriptase-Inhibitor 1 McKenna, D. J., Hughes, K., and Jones, K. 2000. Green Tea Monograph. Alternative Therapies, 6(3): 61-82.
Scabicide 1 Martindale's 29th
Schizophrenigenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Spermigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.