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Plant Cinnamomum verum (Lauraceae)

Common Names
Cinnamon; Ceylon Cinnamon
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
NEROL 10 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NEROL 10 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NEROL 10 Stem Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN 39 Bark not available 8.0 -0.88 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NICKEL 3 Bark not available 1.1 not available Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL 3 Leaf not available 4.2 -0.35 Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-1-AL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NONYL-ALDEHYDE 0 Bark not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
O-METHOXYCINNAMALDEHYDE 6 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 11400.0 13300.0 -0.87 Wealth of India.
OPCS 25 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID 9 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Bark not available 14.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE 16 Bark 39.0 448.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE 16 Bark Essent. Oil not available 5500.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE 16 Leaf 55.0 140.0 -0.28 Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE 16 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE 16 Root Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE 16 Stem Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed 5400.0 6300.0 -0.57 Wealth of India.
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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
Hepatocarcinogenic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective 7 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoregenerative 1 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Hepatotonic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide 15 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Histamine-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Histaminic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Hypercholesterolemic 3 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperglycemic 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.
Hypertensive 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hyperthermic 1 HerbalGram No. 22 - Spring 1990, page 45.
Hyperthyroid 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hypnotic 2 Schultes, R.E. De Plantis Toxicariis e Mundo Novo Tropicale Commentationes XXXVI. Justicia (Acanthaceae) as a Source of an Hallucinogenic Snuff. Economic Botany 44(1): 61-70, 1990.
Hypocholesterolemic 13 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypocholesterolemic? 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoglycemic 10 Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic 2 Duke, 1992 *