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
ASTRAGALIN	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AVENASTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
BARRIGENOL-R1	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BARRINGTOGENOL-C	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZALDEHYDE	24	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZALDEHYDE	24	Shoot	2100.0	2300.0	5.51	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOAXAZOLE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOIC-ACID	20	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOTHIAZOLE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOXAZOLE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ACETATE	9	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL	9	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL	9	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	10100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL	9	Shoot	900.0	1400.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-BUTYRATE	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ETHYL-KETONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Seed Oil	not available	76.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Leaf	27.0	84.0	-0.77	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CYCLOCITRAL	0	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
Fumigant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Fungicide	27	Duke, 1992 *
Fungiphilic	1	J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat	2	Duke, 1992 *
GABA-nergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroirritant	1	Martindale's 29th
Gastroprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Gastrosedative	1	Merck 11th Edition
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Goitrogenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide	2	Duke, 1992 *
GST-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
GTase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemolytic	3	Martindale's 28th
Hemopoietic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	6	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.