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
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE	13	Bark Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE	13	Leaf	90.0	180.0	-0.22	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE	13	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE	13	Plant	42.0	168.0	-0.25	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE	13	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE	13	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Bark	40.0	264.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Bark Essent. Oil	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Leaf	not available	47.0	-0.51	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-TERPINEOL	23	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	1500.0	-0.83	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-THUJENE	0	Leaf	not available	19.0	-0.43	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-YLANGENE	0	Bark	31.0	124.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-YLANGENE	0	Bark Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-YLANGENE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	2500.0	10000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-YLANGENE	0	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-YLANGENE	0	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
FEMA	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic	1	Martindale's 29th
FLavor	48	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	31	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Fungiphilic	1	J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat	3	Duke, 1992 *
GABA-nergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Goitrogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide	2	Duke, 1992 *
GST-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemolytic	2	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemorrhagic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hemostatic	1	Merck 11th Edition