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
CINNAMYL-ALCOHOL	6	Bark Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMYL-ALCOHOL	6	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CINNAMYL-ALCOHOL	6	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	6000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMYL-ALCOHOL	6	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMYL-ALCOHOL	6	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNZEYLANIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNZEYLANINE	0	Bark	not available	350.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNZEYLANOL	0	Bark	not available	63.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNZEYLANOL-1-ACETATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
CIS-CINNAMALDEHYDE	0	Leaf	not available	5.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-LINALOL-OXIDE	0	Leaf	not available	9.4	-1.30	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.
CIS-OCIMENE	3	Bark	3.0	12.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CIS-OCIMENE	3	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLAL	20	Leaf	not available	185.0	-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.
COBALT	2	Bark	not available	0.6	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Leaf	not available	1.1	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
CONIFERALDEHYDE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CONIFERALDEHYDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CONIFERALDEHYDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Bark	4.9	9.0	1.27	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
Antigoiter	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antigonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigrey	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihalitosic	1	American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993.
Antihangover	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihelicobacter	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	1	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhagic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihemorrhoidal	1	Martindale's 28th
Antihepatitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatoadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic	5	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	6	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antihydrocoele	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihyperactivity	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.