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
Hypotensive	10	Duke, 1992 *
Hypothermic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	6	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	8	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Inflammatory	2	Duke, 1992 *
Inhalant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Inotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insect-Repellent	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	13	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	27	Bowers, W.S., Ortego, F., You, X., and Evans, P.H. Insect Repellents From The Chinese Prickly Ash Zanthoxylum bungeanum. Journal of Natural Products, 56(6): 935-938, 1993.
Insectifuge?	1	Martindale's 28th
Insectiphile	4	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
Insulin-Sparing	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Insulinogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Irritant	27	Duke, 1992 *