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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Cinnamomum verum (Lauraceae)

Common Names
Cinnamon; Ceylon Cinnamon
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ETHYL-CINNAMATE 2 Plant *
EUGENOL 76 Bark 140.0 16800.0 1.41 *
EUGENOL 76 Bark Essent. Oil 61000.0 420000.0 *
EUGENOL 76 Essential Oil *
EUGENOL 76 Leaf 1400.0 16800.0 1.16 Wealth of India.
EUGENOL 76 Leaf Essent. Oil 701000.0 945000.0 1.56 *
EUGENOL 76 Root Bark *
EUGENOL 76 Stem Bark *
EUGENOL-ACETATE 1 Bark Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
EUGENOL-ACETATE 1 Essential Oil *
EUGENOL-ACETATE 1 Leaf Essent. Oil 10000.0 1.00 *
EUGENOL-ACETATE 1 Plant *
EUGENOL-ACETATE 1 Root Bark *
EUGENOL-ACETATE 1 Stem Bark *
EUGENOL-METHYL-ETHER 5 Leaf Essent. Oil *
EUGENOL-METHYL-ETHER 5 Stem Bark *
EUGENYL-ACETATE 6 Leaf 1340.0 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.
FARNESOL 17 Bark 3.0 12.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
FARNESOL 17 Leaf Essent. Oil *
FARNESOL 17 Stem Bark *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiatherosclerotic 4 *
Antibacillary 1 *
Antibackache 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial 38 Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antiberiberi 1 *
Antibiotic 1 *
AntiBPH 1 *
Antibronchitic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antibrucellosic 1 Gawron, A., Gorski*, G., Glowniak**, K. 1989. Increased proliferation of phytohaemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated human leucocytes after 8-methoxypsoralen treatment. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 194-195, 1990.
Anticancer 7 *
Anticancer (Breast) 1 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 2 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Anticancer (Kidney) 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Anticancer (Lung) 1 *
Anticancer (Pancreas) 2 *
Anticancer (Prostate) 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Anticanker 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinogenic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Colon) 1 *