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
GLYCINE	12	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUAIACOL	18	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUM	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPT-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTA-2-TRANS-EN-1-AL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTA-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Shoot	600.0	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTA-TRANS-2-TRANSDIEN-4-1-AL	0	Shoot	600.0	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-1-AL	0	Leaf	200.0	300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-1-AL	0	Shoot	200.0	300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-2-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-2-ONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-2-ONE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-3-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTANAL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-1-EN-3-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-AL	0	Leaf	not available	370.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	21500.0	150000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL	0	Shoot	900.0	1300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL-ACETATE	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
Capillarigenic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Capillariprotective	2	Merck 11th Edition
Capillaritonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic	10	Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic?	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Cardiac	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Cardiodepressant	1	Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Cardioprotective	7	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotonic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiovascular	1	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Carminative	8	Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Catabolic	4	Abstract (See species file)
cGMP-Inhibitor	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cGMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Chelator	3	Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive	7	Duke, 1992 *
Cholagogue	2	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Choleretic	18	Duke, 1992 *