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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Camellia sinensis (Theaceae)

Common Names
Tea
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
QUERCIMERITRIN 6 Leaf *
QUERCITRIN 44 Leaf Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
QUINIC-ACID 1 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
QUINOLINE 3 Plant *
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 *
S-METHYL-METHIONINE 0 Leaf 70.0 245.0 1.00 *
SAFRANAL 0 Leaf *
SAFROLE 29 Leaf *
SALICYLALDEHYDE 5 Leaf *
SALICYLATES 7 Leaf 5.0 65.0 -0.44 *
SALICYLIC-ACID 34 Leaf *
SERINE 1 Leaf *
SILICA 0 Leaf 240.0 -1.38 *
SODIUM 1 Leaf 300.0 500.0 -0.56 *
SPINASTEROL 0 Seed Oil *
SPINASTERONE 0 Leaf Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
SPINASTERONE 0 Seed Oil *
STARCH 5 Leaf 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 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hemostatic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hepatocarcinogenic 2 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Hepatomagenic 2 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective 19 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hepatoregenerative 1 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Hepatotonic 1 *
Hepatotoxic 3 Martindale's 29th
Hepatotropic 2 *
Herbicide 9 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Herpetifuge 1 *
HIF-1alpha-Inhibitor 1 *
Histamine-Inhibitor 2 *
Histaminic 1 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 2 Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.
Hormonal 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor 2 *
Hypercholesterolemic 3 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperglycemic 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Hypertensive 3 *
Hyperuricemic 2 Martindale's 28th