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
(+)-3-(S)-7-DIMETHYL-OCTA-1,5-DIENE-3,7-DIOL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Anther	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Leaf	85.2	13200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CATECHOL	4	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-EPIGALLOCATECHIN-GALLATE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-GALLOCATECHIN	7	Leaf	not available	2100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-GALLOCATECHOL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPI-GALLO-CATECHOL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPIAFZELECHIN	2	Leaf	not available	6.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPIAFZELECHIN-3-O-GALLATE	0	Leaf	not available	37.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN	38	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN	38	Leaf	960.0	32500.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN	38	Stem	0.1	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN	38	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN-3-GALLATE	0	Leaf	not available	8200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN-3-O(3-O-METHYL)-GALLATE	0	Leaf	not available	800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN-3-O-(4-O-METHYL)-GALLATE	0	Leaf	not available	16.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN-3-O-GALLATE	7	Leaf	3077.0	3180.0	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
Antispasmophilic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antispastic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antistaphylococcic	12	Duke, 1992 *
Antistomatitic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antistreptococcic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Antistress	5	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistroke	2	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
Antisunburn	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antisyndrome-X	4	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
Antitartar	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antithiamin	2	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.
Antithrombic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antithrombogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antithrombotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antithromboxane	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jul-87.
Antithyroid	5	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antithyrotoxic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitinnitic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiTNF	1	Duke, 1992 *