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
Antialcoholic	3	Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiallergic	7	J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialopecic	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antialzheimeran	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antialzheimeran?	2	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiamblyopic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiandrogenic	4	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic	4	Martindale's 29th
Antianginal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiangiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antianorectic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antianorexic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antianxiety	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiarabiflavinotic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiarachidonate	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarrhythmic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiarthritic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	8	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *