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

Common Names
Cinnamon; Ceylon Cinnamon
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
LINALYL-ACETATE 7 Bark Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
LINALYL-ACETATE 7 Leaf 245.0 -0.47 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.
MANGANESE 14 Bark 66.0 140.0 0.26 *
MANGANESE 14 Leaf 101.6 -0.29 *
MANNITOL 18 Plant *
METHYL-CHAVICOL 6 Leaf 9.4 -0.70 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.
METHYL-CHAVICOL 6 Plant *
METHYL-CINNAMATE 5 Bark Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
METHYL-CINNAMATE 5 Plant *
METHYL-EUGENOL 20 Bark Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
METHYL-EUGENOL 20 Leaf Wealth of India.
METHYL-N-AMYLKETONE 2 Plant *
METHYL-VINYL-KETONE 0 Bark Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
MUCILAGE 3 Bark 20000.0 37000.0 -1.00 *
MYRCENE 22 Bark 5.0 20.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
MYRCENE 22 Leaf 42.0 -0.16 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.
MYRCENE 22 Root Bark *
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Seed 21900.0 25550.0 0.04 Wealth of India.
N-OCTANAL 2 Leaf 9.4 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.
NEROL 10 Leaf 120.0 0.12 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.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antitumor (Pancreas) 2 *
Antitumor (Prostate) 3 *
Antitumor (Skin) 2 *
Antitumor (Stomach) 2 *
Antitumor-Promoter 3 Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitussive 2 *
Antiulcer 12 *
Antiulcerogenic 1 *
Antiurease 1 *
Antiuricosuric 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.
Antivaccinia 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivertigo 1 *
Antiviral 21 *
Antiviral? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiwrinkle 1 Martindale's 28th
Antixerophthalmic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiyeast 3 *
Anxiolytic 4 *
Apifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Apoptotic 5 *