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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Cinnamomum verum (Lauraceae)

Common Names
Cinnamon; Ceylon Cinnamon
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ACETYL-EUGENOL 5 Leaf Wealth of India.
ACETYL-EUGENOL 5 Root Bark *
ALCOHOLS 0 Bark 145.0 1665.0 1.00 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
ALCOHOLS 0 Leaf 205.0 490.0 -0.58 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
ALDEHYDES 0 Bark 2650.0 30280.0 1.00 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
ALDEHYDES 0 Leaf 120.0 290.0 -0.66 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Leaf 55.0 -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.
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Leaf Essent. Oil 2000.0 -0.65 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Root Bark *
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Stem Bark *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Bark Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Leaf Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Root Bark *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Stem Bark *
ALPHA-PHYLLANDRENE 0 Leaf 150.0 300.0 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Bark 20.0 236.0 1.00 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Bark Essent. Oil 2000.0 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Leaf Essent. Oil 2000.0 -0.74 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Diuretic 7 *
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 *
Ecbolic 1 *
Edemagenic 1 *
Elastase-Inhibitor 1 *
Embryotoxic 2 *
Emetic 8 *
Energizer 1 *
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 *
Erythrocytogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Estrogenic 6 *
Expectorant 9 *
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.