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Plant Aspalathus linearis (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Rooibos; Kaffree Tea; Red Bush Tea
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
BETA-IONONE 13 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PHENYLETHYLALCOHOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 40700.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-TERPINEOL 3 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 4300.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL 35 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 500.0 -0.68 Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Shoot not available 0.7 -0.70 Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM 28 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM 28 Plant not available 90.0 -1.44 Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM 28 Shoot not available 2000.0 -0.93 Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSOERIOL 7 Shoot not available 6.6 -0.74 Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ACID 18 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DAMASCENONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 50500.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-VALEROLACTONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 400.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROACTINIDIOLIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROACTINIDIOLIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DODECAN-1-AL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 1000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL 76 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 13600.0 -1.01 Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Shoot not available 17000.0 -0.56 Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID 61 Shoot not available 0.7 not available Duke, 1992 *
FLAVANOL-O-GLYCOSIDE 0 Shoot not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
FLAVONOIDS 0 Leaf not available not available 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
Anthelmintic 3 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Antiacetylcholine 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Antiacetylcholinesterase 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antiacne 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Antiadenomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiadenovirus 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiaflatoxin 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiAGE 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant 9 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiaging 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 2 Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiallergenic 1 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antiallergic 7 Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran? 2 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antianaphylactic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antianemic 2 Martindale's 29th
Antianginal 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.