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

Common Names
Tea
How this plant is used
Food
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
P-COUMARYLQUININC-ACID 0 Plant *
P-CRESOL 8 Leaf *
P-ETHYL-ACETOPHENONE 0 Leaf *
P-ETHYL-PROPIOPHENONE 0 Leaf *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Leaf *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed Oil *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Leaf *
PECTINS 0 Leaf 65000.0 1.00 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PEDUNCULAGIN 9 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
PENT-1-EN-3-OL 0 Leaf *
PENT-1-EN-3-OL 0 Shoot 2100.0 2300.0 *
PENT-CIS-2-EN-1-OL 0 Shoot 1000.0 1400.0 *
PENT-CIS-3-EN-1-AL 0 Leaf *
PENT-CIS-3-EN-1-AL 0 Shoot 2100.0 2300.0 *
PENTAN-1-OL 0 Shoot 600.0 1100.0 *
PHENOL 26 Leaf *
PHENOLS 0 Leaf 50000.0 270000.0 2.45 *
PHENYL-ACETALDEHYDE 2 Shoot 15200.0 17800.0 *
PHENYLACETALDEHUDE 0 Shoot 15200.0 17800.0 *
PHENYLACETIC-ACID 2 Leaf 1850.0 3130.0 1.00 *
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List of plant activities.
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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 *
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 *
COX-1-Inhibitor 6 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 9 *
Culicide 2 *
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 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A1-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer 3 *
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.