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
THEAFLAVIN-MONOGALLATE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEAFLAVIN-MONOGALLATE-A	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEAFLAVIN-MONOGALLATE-B	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEAFLAVONIN	0	Leaf	not available	11.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEANINE	2	Anther	16000.0	29000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEANINE	2	Cotyledon	not available	577.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEANINE	2	Leaf	5000.0	13500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEANINE	2	Seed	not available	109.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEANINE	2	Shoot	not available	63.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEANINE	2	Stem	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEARUBIGENS	0	Leaf	17000.0	59400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEARUBIGIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEARUBIGIN	0	Shoot	135600.0	157400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEASAPONIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEASAPONIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEASINENSIN-A	0	Leaf	3.0	48718.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEASINENSIN-B	0	Leaf	128.0	600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEASINENSIN-C	0	Leaf	not available	70.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEASINENSIN-D	0	Leaf	not available	18.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THEASINENSIN-E	0	Leaf	not available	14.0	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
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 *