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

Common Names

Rooibos; Kaffree Tea; Red Bush Tea

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1,2-DICHLOROBENZENE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-METHYLNAPHTHALENE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	4000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2,2,6-TRIMETHYL-CYCLOHEXANONE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	3700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2,3-DIHYDROBENZOFURAN	1	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	3200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2,4-DIHYDROXY-ACETOPHENONE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	2100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2,4-DIMETHYLBENZALDEHYDE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	1300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2,6,6-TRIMETHYLCYCLOHEXENONE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	7100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-METHOXY-2-BUTEN-4-OLIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-METHYL-HEPT-2-EN-4-ONE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	5900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-METHYL-NAPHTHALENE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	6800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-PENTYL-FURAN	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-PHENYLETHANOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3,4,5-TRIHYDROXYCINNAMIC-ACID	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3,5,5-TRIMETHYLCYCLOHEX-3-EN-1-ONE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-METHYL-BUTANOIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-BUTANOLIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
5-HYDROXY-3',4',7-TRI-O-METHYL-LUTEOLIN	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6,10,14-TRIMETHYLPENTADECANONE	0	Plant	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
Cholagogue	2	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Choleretic	10	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Cholesterolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cicatrizant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Circulotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Clastogenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Active	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
CNS-Depressant	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Stimulant	1	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CNS-Toxic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Co-carcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cold-preventive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Collagen-Sparing	1	Duke, 1992 *
Collagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
COMT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Copper-Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Counterirritant	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
COX-1-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Culicide	2	Duke, 1992 *