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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Aspalathus linearis (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Rooibos; Kaffree Tea; Red Bush Tea
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
HEPTAN-3-OL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 6700.0 *
HEPTAN-3-ONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 4700.0 *
HEPTAN-4-OL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 3900.0 *
HEPTAN-4-ONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 2100.0 *
HEXAN-1-OL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 700.0 *
HEXAN-1-OL-ACETATE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 400.0 *
HEXANE-2,5-DIONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 1500.0 *
HEXANOIC-ACID 2 Plant *
HEXANOIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 600.0 *
HOMOORIENTIN 0 Shoot List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
IRON 6 Plant 14.0 -0.72 *
IRON 6 Shoot 3300.0 3.75 *
ISOBITEXIN 0 Shoot *
ISOORIENTIN 4 Shoot *
ISOQUERCETIN 3 Shoot *
ISOQUERCITRIN 22 Shoot 1.0 -1.15 *
ISOVITEXIN 4 Shoot 0.5 *
LIMONENE 60 Leaf Essent. Oil *
LINALOOL 53 Leaf Essent. Oil 5400.0 -0.66 *
LINALOOL-OXIDE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 2000.0 -1.15 *
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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 *
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 *
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiadenovirus 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiaflatoxin 1 *
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 *
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 *
Antialzheimeran 3 *
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.