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
ETHYL-CINNAMATE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Bark	140.0	16800.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Bark Essent. Oil	61000.0	420000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Leaf	1400.0	16800.0	1.16	Wealth of India.
EUGENOL	76	Leaf Essent. Oil	701000.0	945000.0	1.56	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL-ACETATE	1	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
EUGENOL-ACETATE	1	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL-ACETATE	1	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	10000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL-ACETATE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL-ACETATE	1	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL-ACETATE	1	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL-METHYL-ETHER	5	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL-METHYL-ETHER	5	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENYL-ACETATE	6	Leaf	not available	1340.0	not available	Mallavarupu, G. R. et al. 1995. Investigation of the essential oil of cinnamon leaf grown at Bangalore and Hyderabad. Flav. & Fragr. J., 10: 239-242.
FARNESOL	17	Bark	3.0	12.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
FARNESOL	17	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FARNESOL	17	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Antiprogestational	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprolactin	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiproliferant	6	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antiprostaglandin	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipruritic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Antipseudomonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipsittacotic	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antipsoriac	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipyretic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antipyruvetic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiradicular	10	Duke, 1992 *
AntiRaynaud's	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antirenitic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiretinopathic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiretinotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiReye's	1	Martindale's 29th
Antirheumatalgic	1	Martindale's 28th