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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
GERANIOL 35 Leaf Essent. Oil *
GERANIOL 35 Root Bark *
GERANIOL 35 Stem Bark *
GERANIOL-ACETATE 0 Stem Bark *
GERANYL-ACETATE 5 Bark Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
GUM 0 Bark Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
HEXAN-1-OL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
HEXAN-1-OL 0 Root Bark *
HEXAN-1-OL 0 Stem Bark *
HEXANOL 3 Plant *
HUMULENE 2 Bark 20.0 124.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
HYDROCINNAMALDEHYDE 0 Bark 15.0 160.0 *
HYDROCINNAMALDEHYDE 0 Leaf 8.0 20.0 *
HYDROCINNAMALDEHYDE 0 Root Bark *
IODINE 12 Bark 3.0 1.00 *
IRON 6 Bark 60.0 421.0 0.99 *
ISOCARYOPHYLLENE 1 Bark Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ISOEUGENOL 16 Bark 2.0 8.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ISOEUGENOL 16 Leaf Essent. Oil *
ISOEUGENOL 16 Stem Bark *
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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 *