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Cinnamomum tamala

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 17 constituent measurements for Cinnamomum tamala. This page reports what those source records contain and how to reach them. It carries no effect estimate, no dose and no recommendation.

Accepted name in source: Cinnamomum tamala (Buch.-Ham.) T.Nees & Eberm.

17Constituent measurements

0Safety records

7Cited sources

15Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 15 licensed products naming Cinnamomum tamala as a medicinal ingredient, matched on the exact Latin binomial. A licence records that a product met the regulator's requirements for sale in Canada. It is not evidence that the product works.

Extract types on licence

Source material stated

Leaf

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Recorded constituents

What analytical work has found in this species, at which plant part and preparation. A measured constituent is a fact about material, not about effect.

Substance	Plant part	Preparation	Concentration	Analytical method	Source
Cinnamaldehyde	Bark	Solvent extraction	2.443 Milligram/gram	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	Resolve DOI
Eugenol	Leaves	Solvent extraction	5.405 Milligram/gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Eugenol	Bark	Solvent extraction	0.169 Milligram/gram	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	Resolve DOI
Isoeugenol	Bark	Solvent extraction	0.07 Milligram/gram	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Leaves	Essential oil	4.6 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Leaves	Essential oil	1.26 Percent	GC-FID-MS	No resolvable identifier
1,8-cineole	Bark	Essential oil	6.8 Percent	GC-FID-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Leaves	Solvent extraction	0.94 Percent	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Cinnamaldehyde	Leaves	Essential oil	79.4 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Cinnamaldehyde	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 62.3 Percent	GC-FID-MS	No resolvable identifier
Cinnamaldehyde	Leaves	Essential oil	≥ 35.8 Percent	GC-FID-MS	No resolvable identifier
Coumarin	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 3.6 Percent	GC-FID-MS	No resolvable identifier
Coumarin	Leaves	Essential oil	≥ 1 Percent	GC-FID-MS	No resolvable identifier
Eugenol	Leaves	Essential oil	70.63 Percent	GC-FID-MS	No resolvable identifier
Myrcene	Bark	Essential oil	1.09 Percent	GC-FID-MS	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Leaves	Solvent extraction	1.86 Percent	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Tannins	Leaves	Solvent extraction	11.31 Percent	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier

Cited sources

The literature the compendium cites for this species. Metatron Health has no relationship with these authors or journals and earns nothing from citing them.

Baruah, Akhil., Nath, Subhan C., Hazarika, Ajit K. Investigation of the essential oils of Cinnamomum tamala Nees. grown at Jorhat, Assam. Indian perfumer, 2007, p. 50-52.
Dighe, Vidya V., Gursale, Atish A., Charegaonkar, Gauri A. Quantitation of Eugenol, Cinnamaldehyde and Isoeugenol from Cinnamomum tamala Nees and Eberm. Leaf Powder and Cinnamomum zeylanicum Breyn Stem Bark Powder by LC . Chromatographia, 2009, vol. 70, no. 11-12, p. 1759-1762. DOI
Dighe, VV., Gursale, AA., Sane, RT., Menon, S., Raje, SC. Quantification of eugenol in Cinnamomum tamala Nees and Eberm. Leaf powder by high-performance thin-layer chromatography . Jpc-journal of planar chromatography-modern tlc, 2005, vol. 18, no. 104, p. 305-307. DOI
Chanotiya, C. S., Yadav, A. Enantioenriched (3S)-(+)-Linalool in the Leaf Oil of Cinnamomum tamala Nees et Eberm. from Kumaon . Journal of essential oil research, 2010, vol. 22, no. 6, p. 593-596.
Joshi, Subhash C., Padalia, Rajendra C., Bisht, Dinesh S., Mathela, Chandra S. Terpenoid Diversity in the Leaf Essential Oils of Himalayan Lauraceae Species . Chemistry & biodiversity, 2009, vol. 6, no. 9, p. 1364-1373.
Srivastava, B., Singh, P., Sagar, A., Dubey, N.K. A study to evaluate the physicochemical properties and phytochemical constituents of five aromatic plants. Journal of phytomedicine and therapeutics, 2009, vol. 14, p. 1-6.
Mir, SR., Ali, M., Kapoor, R. Chemical composition of essential oil of Cinnamomum tamala Nees et Eberm. leaves . Flavour and fragrance journal, 2004, vol. 19, no. 2, p. 112-114. DOI

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