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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
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Root Bark *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Stem Bark *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Bark Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Leaf 90.0 180.0 -0.22 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Leaf Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Plant 42.0 168.0 -0.25 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Root Bark *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Stem Bark *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Bark 40.0 264.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Bark Essent. Oil 0.0 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Leaf 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 1500.0 -0.83 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Root Bark *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Stem Bark *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Leaf 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 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-YLANGENE 0 Bark Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-YLANGENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 2500.0 10000.0 1.00 *
ALPHA-YLANGENE 0 Root Bark *
ALPHA-YLANGENE 0 Stem Bark *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hepatocarcinogenic 4 *
Hepatoprotective 7 *
Hepatoregenerative 1 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Hepatotonic 1 *
Hepatotoxic 3 *
Hepatotropic 1 *
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 *
Histaminic 2 *
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor 2 *
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 *
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 *