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.
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.