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
STIGMASTEROL	12	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STRICTININ	1	Leaf	not available	130.0	1.18	Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR	14	Leaf	not available	880.0	-0.93	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TANNIC-ACID	41	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Leaf	33800.0	270000.0	1.95	Duke, 1992 *
TANNINS	0	Leaf	33800.0	270000.0	2.25	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXEROL	2	Seed Oil	not available	20.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TEASTERONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TETRAMETHYL-PYRAZINE	22	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
TETRAMETHYLTRIOXYPURINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEAFLAGALLIN	0	Leaf	3.0	4.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
THEAFLAVIN	7	Leaf	5.4	600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEAFLAVIN	7	Shoot	1800.0	14000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEAFLAVIN-3'-O-GALLATE	0	Leaf	19.0	800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEAFLAVIN-3-3'-DI-O-GALLATE	0	Leaf	18.0	300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEAFLAVIN-3-GALLATE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEAFLAVIN-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEAFLAVIN-DIGALLATE	3	Leaf	700.0	2500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEAFLAVIN-GALLATE-A	0	Leaf	1700.0	8300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEAFLAVIN-GALLATE-B	0	Leaf	2400.0	2500.0	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
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.