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
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.