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
CINNAMALDEHYDE	60	Essential Oil	not available	800000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMALDEHYDE	60	Leaf Essent. Oil	9700.0	31000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMALDEHYDE	60	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMALDEHYDE	60	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMALDEHYDE	60	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ACID	18	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ACID-ACETATE	0	Bark Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ACID-ACETATE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ACID-ACETATE	0	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ACID-ACETATE	0	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER	1	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER	1	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER	0	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ALCOHOL	3	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ALCOHOL	3	Leaf	45.0	90.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMYL-ACETATE	3	Bark	175.0	2040.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMYL-ACETATE	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
CINNAMYL-ACETATE	3	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMYL-ALCOHOL	6	Bark	26.0	104.0	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
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 *