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	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
3,6-DIMETHYL-2-ETHYL-PYRAZINE	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
3-(S)-7-DIMETHYL-OCTA-1,5,7-TRIEN-3-OL	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-(S)-7-DIMETHYL-OCTA-1,5-DIEN-3,7-DIOL	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
3-ETHYL-PYRIDINE	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-METHOXY-PYRIDINE	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-METHYL-PENTAN-2-OL	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-METHYL-PYRIDINE	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-N-BUTYL-PYRIDINE	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-N-PROPYL-QUINOLINE	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-PHENYL-PYRIDINE	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
30	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4,8-DIMETHYL-QUINOLINE	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-ETHYL-7,11-DIMETHYL-DODECA-TRANS-2-TRANS-6,10-TRIENE-1-AL	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-ETHYL-7,11-DIMETHYL-DODECA-TRANS-2-TRANS-6,1O-TRIEN-1-AL	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-ETHYL-GUAIACOL	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-GALLOCATECHOL	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
4-METHOXY-BENZALDEHYDE	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-METHYL-2-PHENYL-PENT-2-EN-1-AL	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-METHYL-HEX-5-EN-4-OLIDE	Leaf	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
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 *