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
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 *

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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
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 *