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

Common Names

Tea

How this plant is used

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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
ISOAMYL-ALCOHOL	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBUTYL-ALCOHOL	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBUTYRALDEHYDE	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOCAPRONIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOGIBBERELLIN-A-3	0	Endosperm	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITRIN	22	Leaf	not available	1820.0	2.45	Duke, 1992 *
ISOSCHAFTOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
ISOTHEFLAVIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVALERALDEHYDE	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVITEXIN	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JASMONE	8	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JASMONIC-ACID	0	Anther	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JASMONIC-ACID	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JASMONIC-ACID	0	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JASMONIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER	0	Anther	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JASMONIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JASMONIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER	0	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFERITRIN	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Leaf	not available	520.0	1.89	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Plant	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
Congestant	1	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.
Contraceptive	1	Martindale's 28th
Controlled	1	HerbalGram No. 20, page 15.
Convulsant	1	R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Copper-Antagonist	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
Copper-Chelator	2	Duke, 1992 *
Coronary-Dilator	1	McKenna, D. J., Hughes, K., and Jones, K. 2000. Green Tea Monograph. Alternative Therapies, 6(3): 61-82.
Cosmetic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Counterirritant	3	Duke, 1992 *
COX-1-Inhibitor	6	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	9	Duke, 1992 *
Culicide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Activator	2	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	12	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor	2	Pizzorno, J. 1998. Total Wellness. Prima Health, a division of Prima.
Cytochrome-P488-Inducer	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytoprotective	2	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.