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
PELARGONALDEHYDE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
PHELLANDRENE	4	Bark	63.0	252.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
PHENOL	26	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENOL	26	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENOLS	0	Bark	85.0	4000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PHENOLS	0	Leaf	3640.0	8735.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYL-ETHYL-ALCOHOL	0	Bark	41.0	165.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
PHENYLETHYL-ACETATE	0	Bark	7.0	28.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
PHENYLETHYL-ACETATE	0	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLPROPYL-ACETATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Bark	674.0	1100.0	-0.09	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Bark	not available	260.0	not available	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
PIPERITONE	7	Bark	7.0	28.0	not available	Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
PIPERITONE	7	Bark Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERITONE	7	Leaf	not available	14.0	-0.35	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.
PIPERITONE	7	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERITONE	7	Plant	7.0	28.0	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERITONE	7	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERITONE	7	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Bark	5525.0	6000.0	0.00	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 *