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
CINNAMYL-ALCOHOL	6	Bark Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMYL-ALCOHOL	6	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CINNAMYL-ALCOHOL	6	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	6000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMYL-ALCOHOL	6	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMYL-ALCOHOL	6	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNZEYLANIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNZEYLANINE	0	Bark	not available	350.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNZEYLANOL	0	Bark	not available	63.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNZEYLANOL-1-ACETATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
CIS-CINNAMALDEHYDE	0	Leaf	not available	5.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-LINALOL-OXIDE	0	Leaf	not available	9.4	-1.30	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.
CIS-OCIMENE	3	Bark	3.0	12.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CIS-OCIMENE	3	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLAL	20	Leaf	not available	185.0	-0.37	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.
COBALT	2	Bark	not available	0.6	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Leaf	not available	1.1	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
CONIFERALDEHYDE	0	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.
CONIFERALDEHYDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CONIFERALDEHYDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Bark	4.9	9.0	1.27	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antitumor (Pancreas)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Prostate)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Skin)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Stomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	3	Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitussive	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer	12	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiurease	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	21	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Anxiolytic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Apifuge	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Apoptotic	5	Duke, 1992 *