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Common Names
Rooibos; Kaffree Tea; Red Bush Tea
How this plant is used
Medicinal
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6-METHYL-HEPT-5-EN-2-ONE | 0 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | 39700.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 6-METHYL-HEPTA-3,5-DIEN-2-ONE-ISOMER-A | 0 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | 51800.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 6-METHYL-HEPTA-3,5-DIEN-2-ONE-ISOMER-B | 0 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | 1900.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ACETIC-ACID | 16 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ACETOPHENONE | 6 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | 4000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-TERPINENE | 13 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-TERPINEOL | 23 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | 4200.0 | -0.78 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL | 32 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALUMINUM | 5 | Shoot | not available | 9900.0 | 1.08 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ASCORBIC-ACID | 112 | Shoot | 157.0 | 94000.0 | 4.18 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ASH | 0 | Shoot | not available | 25000.0 | -1.80 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ASPALATHIN | 1 | Shoot | 17.0 | 15000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ASPALATHIN-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDES | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BENZALDEHYDE | 24 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | 15900.0 | 0.70 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BENZOIC-ACID | 20 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BENZOIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER | 0 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | 600.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BENZOTHIAZOLE | 0 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | 3400.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BENZYL-ALCOHOL | 9 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-CYCLOCITRAL | 0 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | 10200.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-DAMISCENONE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatotropic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Histaminic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hypotensive | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hypothermic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ICAM-1-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |