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

Download these results as:

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 *

Download these results as:

CSV

EXCEL

PDF

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 *