Plant Camellia sinensis (Theaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Tea

How this plant is used

Food

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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
BETA-CYCLOCITRAL	0	Shoot	800.0	1000.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-DAMASCENONE	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-DAMASCONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-GAMMA-HEXENOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-GLUCOGALLIN	0	Leaf	not available	28.4	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-IONONE	13	Leaf	not available	31.0	0.14	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-IONONE	13	Leaf Essent. Oil	200.0	3100.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-IONONE	13	Shoot	1700.0	2900.0	2.00	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SESQUIPHELLANDRENE	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Leaf	2130.0	2230.0	0.13	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BRASSICASTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BRASSICASTEROL	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BRASSINOLIDE	3	Leaf	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BRASSINONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTAN-2-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYRALDEHYDE	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYRIC-ACID	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYROIN	0	Leaf	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
Antihemorrhoidal	3	Martindale's 28th
Antihepatitic	5	Martindale's 29th
Antihepatoadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic	17	Okuda, T., Yoshida, T., and Hatano, T. Antioxidant Effects of Tannins and Related Polyphenols. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.7 p.93.
Antiherpetic	18	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	16	J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
AntiHIV	17	Duke, 1992 *
Antihomocystinuric	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihydrocoele	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihydrophobic	1	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihyperactivity	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihypercholesterolemic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperglycemic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperkeratotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperkinetic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive	11	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperthyroid	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antihypoglycemic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.