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
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	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	3	Martindale's 29th
Hepatotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
HIF-1alpha-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Histamine-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Histaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Hyperuricemic	2	Martindale's 28th