Plant Cinnamomum verum (Lauraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Cinnamon; Ceylon Cinnamon

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
NEROL	10	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEROL	10	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEROL	10	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Bark	not available	8.0	-0.88	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NICKEL	3	Bark	not available	1.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Leaf	not available	4.2	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-1-AL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONYL-ALDEHYDE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
O-METHOXYCINNAMALDEHYDE	6	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	11400.0	13300.0	-0.87	Wealth of India.
OPCS	25	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID	9	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Bark	not available	14.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Bark	39.0	448.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Bark Essent. Oil	not available	5500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Leaf	55.0	140.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	5400.0	6300.0	-0.57	Wealth of India.

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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
(-)-Chronotropic	3	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
(-)-Inotropic	3	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acaricide	12	Duke, 1992 *
Acarifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	6	Duke, 1992 *
AChE-Inhibitor	1	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Acidulant	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Acnegenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Adrenergic	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	10	Duke, 1992 *
Allelochemic	10	Duke, 1992 *
Allelopathic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Allergenic	25	Duke, 1992 *
Allergenic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Amphiglycemic?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Analgesic	14	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	2	Duke, 1992 *