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
TITANIUM	0	Bark	not available	40.0	0.30	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-CINNAMALDEHYDE	7	Bark	2450.0	54000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-CINNAMALDEHYDE	7	Bark Essent. Oil	not available	470000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-CINNAMALDEHYDE	7	Leaf	60.0	335.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-CINNAMIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-CINNAMIC-ACIDD	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-LINALOL-OXIDE	0	Bark	5.0	20.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-LINALOL-OXIDE	0	Leaf	not available	9.4	-1.00	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.
TRANS-LINALOOL-OXIDE	0	Bark	5.0	20.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TRANS-LINALOOL-OXIDE	0	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-OCIMENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-OCIMENE	0	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN	28	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN	28	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Bark	not available	107000.0	-2.02	Wealth of India.
ZINC	77	Bark	11.4	20.0	0.69	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Leaf	not available	34.0	-0.32	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
Carcinogenic	8	Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic?	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Cardiodepressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiomyopathogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Cardioprotective	7	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotonic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Carminative	4	Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive	7	Duke, 1992 *
Cholagogue	2	Fitoterapia No.5-1986.
Choleretic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Cholesterolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Choline-Sparing	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chronotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cicatrizant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Circulatory-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Circulotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Clastogenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.