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Common Names
Cinnamon; Ceylon Cinnamon
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACETYL-EUGENOL | 5 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| ACETYL-EUGENOL | 5 | Root Bark | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALCOHOLS | 0 | Bark | 145.0 | 1665.0 | 1.00 | Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp. |
| ALCOHOLS | 0 | Leaf | 205.0 | 490.0 | -0.58 | Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp. |
| ALDEHYDES | 0 | Bark | 2650.0 | 30280.0 | 1.00 | Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp. |
| ALDEHYDES | 0 | Leaf | 120.0 | 290.0 | -0.66 | Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp. |
| ALPHA-HUMULENE | 2 | Leaf | not available | 55.0 | -0.37 | 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-HUMULENE | 2 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | 2000.0 | -0.65 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-HUMULENE | 2 | Root Bark | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-HUMULENE | 2 | Stem Bark | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE | 11 | Bark Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE | 11 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE | 11 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE | 11 | Root Bark | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE | 11 | Stem Bark | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-PHYLLANDRENE | 0 | Leaf | 150.0 | 300.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-PINENE | 28 | Bark | 20.0 | 236.0 | 1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-PINENE | 28 | Bark Essent. Oil | not available | 2000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-PINENE | 28 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| ALPHA-PINENE | 28 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | 2000.0 | -0.74 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antiatherosclerotic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antibacillary | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antibackache | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antibacterial | 38 | Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994. |
| Antiberiberi | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antibiotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| AntiBPH | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticancer (Pancreas) | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |