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.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Diuretic	7	Duke, 1992 *
DME-Inhibitor	1	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 134.
DNA-Active	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Binder	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ecbolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Edemagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Elastase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Embryotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	8	Duke, 1992 *
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Enterocontractant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterorelaxant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Epileptigenic	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.
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Estrogenic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant	9	Duke, 1992 *
Fatal	1	Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.