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Common Names
Cinnamon; Ceylon Cinnamon
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BORNEOL | 35 | Leaf | not available | 9.4 | -0.46 | 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. |
| BORNEOL | 35 | Root Bark | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BORNEOL-ACETATE | 0 | Root Bark | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BORNYL-ACETATE | 12 | Bark | 10.0 | 20.0 | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| BORON | 4 | Bark | 7.0 | 15.0 | not available | Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron). |
| BROMINE | 0 | Bark | not available | 10.0 | -0.71 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAFFEIC-ACID | 102 | Bark | not available | 6.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CALCIUM | 28 | Bark | 3415.0 | 6000.0 | -1.21 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CALCIUM-OXALATE | 4 | Bark | not available | not available | not available | Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp. |
| CALCIUM-OXALATE | 4 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPESTEROL | 2 | Bark | not available | 30.0 | 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.) |
| CAMPHENE | 9 | Bark | 18.0 | 72.0 | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| CAMPHENE | 9 | Bark Essent. Oil | not available | 0.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPHENE | 9 | Leaf | 20.0 | 40.0 | -0.18 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPHENE | 9 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPHENE | 9 | Root Bark | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPHENE | 9 | Stem Bark | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPHOR | 41 | Bark Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPHOR | 41 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPHOR | 41 | Leaf | not available | 5.0 | -0.25 | 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 * |