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
NEROL	10	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEROL	10	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEROL	10	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Bark	not available	8.0	-0.88	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NICKEL	3	Bark	not available	1.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Leaf	not available	4.2	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-1-AL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONYL-ALDEHYDE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
O-METHOXYCINNAMALDEHYDE	6	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	11400.0	13300.0	-0.87	Wealth of India.
OPCS	25	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID	9	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Bark	not available	14.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Bark	39.0	448.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Bark Essent. Oil	not available	5500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Leaf	55.0	140.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	5400.0	6300.0	-0.57	Wealth of India.

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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
Protisticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Psychoactive	1	R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Renoirritant	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.
Renotoxic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Respirainhibitor	1	Merck 11th Edition
Respirastimulant	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Respirodepressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Reverse-Transcriptase-Inhibitor	1	McKenna, D. J., Hughes, K., and Jones, K. 2000. Green Tea Monograph. Alternative Therapies, 6(3): 61-82.
Rodenticide	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Rubefacient	2	Duke, 1992 *
Scabicide	2	Merck 11th Edition
Schizophrenigenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Secretogogue	1	Duke, 1992 *
Secretolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Sedative	26	Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Serotoninergic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Soap	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spasmogenic	6	Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Spasmolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *