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
P450-Inducer	3	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inhibitor	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Parasiticide	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Perfumery	17	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Peristaltic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	37	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Photosensitizer	1	Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.
Phytoalexin	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Preservative	1	Merck 11th Edition
Proliferant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthetase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	2	Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.