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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QUERCIMERITRIN | 6 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| QUERCITRIN | 44 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980. |
| QUINIC-ACID | 1 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| QUINOLINE | 3 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| RIBOFLAVIN | 15 | Leaf | 8.0 | 12.0 | -0.12 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| RUTIN | 87 | Leaf | 1200.0 | 1580.0 | -0.91 | Duke, 1992 * |
| S-METHYL-METHIONINE | 0 | Leaf | 70.0 | 245.0 | 1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SAFRANAL | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SAFROLE | 29 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SALICYLALDEHYDE | 5 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SALICYLATES | 7 | Leaf | 5.0 | 65.0 | -0.44 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SALICYLIC-ACID | 34 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SERINE | 1 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SILICA | 0 | Leaf | not available | 240.0 | -1.38 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SODIUM | 1 | Leaf | 300.0 | 500.0 | -0.56 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SPINASTEROL | 0 | Seed Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SPINASTERONE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books) |
| SPINASTERONE | 0 | Seed Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STARCH | 5 | Leaf | not available | 5000.0 | -0.82 | ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes. |
| STEARIC-ACID | 8 | Seed | 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 * |