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
CHONDRILLASTEROL	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ACID	18	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-BETA-OCIMENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-JASMONE	0	Leaf	not available	20.0	-0.48	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-JASMONE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	500.0	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-JASMONENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-LINALOL-OXIDE	0	Shoot	600.0	1600.0	2.82	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-LINALOOL-OXIDE	0	Shoot	600.0	1600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRAL-ALPHA	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLOL	15	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Leaf	not available	20.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
CRYPTOXANTHIN	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOHEXANONES	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CYSTEINE	13	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D,L-CATECHIN	0	Leaf	not available	2664.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAMMARADIENOL	3	Seed Oil	not available	30.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIENE-1-AL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	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
Antiacne	12	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrodermatitic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiADD	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiAddisonian	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic	3	Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiadenovirus	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiaflatoxin	5	Duke, 1992 *
AntiAGE	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant	19	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic	5	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialdosteronic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialkalotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiallergenic	2	Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antiallergic	13	J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialopecic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran	6	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.