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
FLUORIDE	3	Plant	0.4	1.7	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Leaf	not available	44000.0	0.70	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Shoot	not available	44000.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-NONALACTONE	2	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	3200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-OCTALACTONE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	4200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE	11	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETONE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUAIACOL	18	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUAIACOL	18	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	240000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUAIACOL	18	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPT-1-EN-3-OL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPT-2-EN-1-AL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	1500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPT-2-EN-1-OL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	5000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPT-4-EN-1-AL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTA-2,4-DIEN-1-AL-ISOMER-A	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	24600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTA-2,4-DIEN-1-AL-ISOMER-B	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	27700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-1-AL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	1700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-1-OL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-2-OL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	9600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-2-ONE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	6400.0	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 *