Cinnamomum camphora is an active, oriental herbal
medicine used in various inflammatory diseases (Choi, 1997). In
spite of its famous legacy, the pharmacological effects have not
been fully explored from the immunopathological view point.
In this study, therefore, we investigated the modulatory effect of
Cinnamomum camphora on macrophage-mediated inflammatory
phenomena such as cytokine production, NO release, PGE2
release, functional activation of adhesion molecules and oxidative
stress (Sekut and Connolly, 1996; Oh et al., 2001; Bingham,
2002; Payne, 2003) in order to understand its anti-inflammatory
action.