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Common Names
Tea
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BETA-CYCLOCITRAL | 0 | Shoot | 800.0 | 1000.0 | 1.41 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-DAMASCENONE | 3 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-DAMASCONE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-GAMMA-HEXENOL | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-GLUCOGALLIN | 0 | Leaf | not available | 28.4 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-IONONE | 13 | Leaf | not available | 31.0 | 0.14 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-IONONE | 13 | Leaf Essent. Oil | 200.0 | 3100.0 | 1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-IONONE | 13 | Shoot | 1700.0 | 2900.0 | 2.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-SESQUIPHELLANDRENE | 5 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Leaf | 2130.0 | 2230.0 | 0.13 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Seed Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BRASSICASTEROL | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BRASSICASTEROL | 0 | Seed Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BRASSINOLIDE | 3 | Leaf | not available | 0.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BRASSINONE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BUTAN-2-OL | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BUTYRALDEHYDE | 2 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BUTYRIC-ACID | 6 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BUTYROIN | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Emollient | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Encephalopathic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Energizer | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Enterocontractant | 1 | J. Aromatherapy 4: 22. |
| Enterorelaxant | 4 | J. Aromatherapy 4: 22. |
| Enterotoxic | 1 | Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp. |
| Ergogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Ergotamine-Enhancer | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Essential | 5 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Estrogenic | 8 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Estrogenic? | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
| Expectorant | 12 | 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. |
| Fatal | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
| Febrifuge | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Fetotoxic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fibrinolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fistula-Preventive | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| FLavor | 46 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Floral-Inhibitor | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| FPTase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |