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Plant Camellia sinensis (Theaceae)

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
BUTYROSPERMOL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BUTYROSPERMOL 0 Seed Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE 62 Anther 0.1 not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE 62 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE 62 Leaf 3810.0 93000.0 1.38 Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE 62 Pericarp not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE 62 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE 62 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE 62 Seed Coat not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE 62 Shoot 38100.0 47900.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE 62 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE 62 Tissue Culture not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM 28 Leaf 327.0 2456.0 -1.09 Duke, 1992 *
CAMELLIA-GALACTOGLUCAN 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAMELLIA-POLYSACCHARIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAMELLIA-SINENSIS-POLYSACCHARIDE-TSA 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAMELLIAGENIN-A 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAMELLIAGENIN-D 0 Plant not available not available not available J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
CAMELLIANIN-A 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hypnotic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoammonemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoarginanemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Hypocholesterolemic 22 Singleton, V.L. 1981. Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants: Phenolic Substances of Plant Origin Common in Foods. Advances in Food Research 27: 149-217.
Hypoglycemic 17 Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipidemic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive 18 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypothermic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypouricemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
IKK-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator 9 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant 16 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Immunosuppressant 4 Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor 3 Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide 9 Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge 21 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile 9 J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.
Insulin-Sparing 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.