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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
(+)-CATECHIN 30 Shoot *
1,2-DICHLOROBENZENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
1-METHYLNAPHTHALENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 4000.0 *
2,2,6-TRIMETHYL-CYCLOHEXANONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 3700.0 *
2,3-DIHYDROBENZOFURAN 1 Leaf Essent. Oil 3200.0 *
2,4-DIHYDROXY-ACETOPHENONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 2100.0 *
2,4-DIMETHYLBENZALDEHYDE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 1300.0 *
2,6,6-TRIMETHYLCYCLOHEXENONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 7100.0 *
2-METHOXY-2-BUTEN-4-OLIDE 0 Plant *
2-METHYL-HEPT-2-EN-4-ONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 5900.0 *
2-METHYL-NAPHTHALENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 6800.0 *
2-PENTYL-FURAN 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 1000.0 *
2-PHENYLETHANOL 0 Plant *
3,4,5-TRIHYDROXYCINNAMIC-ACID 0 Shoot *
3,5,5-TRIMETHYLCYCLOHEX-3-EN-1-ONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 500.0 *
3-METHYL-BUTANOIC-ACID 0 Plant *
4-BUTANOLIDE 0 Plant *
4-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID 0 Shoot *
5-HYDROXY-3',4',7-TRI-O-METHYL-LUTEOLIN 0 Shoot *
6,10,14-TRIMETHYLPENTADECANONE 0 Plant *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hemostat 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hepatocarcinogenic 1 *
Hepatomagenic 2 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective 10 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hepatotoxic 1 *
Hepatotropic 2 *
Herbicide 5 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Histamine-Inhibitor 1 *
Histaminic 1 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 1 Nakane, H., Fukushima, M., and Ono*, K. Differential Inhibition Of Reverse Transcriptase And Various DNA Polymerases By Digallic Acid And Its Derivatives. Journal of Natural Products, 53(5): 1234-1240, 1990.
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor 1 *
Hydrocholerectic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypertensive 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypnotic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypocholesterolemic 6 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic 3 Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic 1 *
Hypotensive 6 *
Hypothermic 2 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor 1 *