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
CHONDRILLASTEROL	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ACID	18	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-BETA-OCIMENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-JASMONE	0	Leaf	not available	20.0	-0.48	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-JASMONE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	500.0	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-JASMONENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-LINALOL-OXIDE	0	Shoot	600.0	1600.0	2.82	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-LINALOOL-OXIDE	0	Shoot	600.0	1600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRAL-ALPHA	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLOL	15	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Leaf	not available	20.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
CRYPTOXANTHIN	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOHEXANONES	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CYSTEINE	13	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D,L-CATECHIN	0	Leaf	not available	2664.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAMMARADIENOL	3	Seed Oil	not available	30.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIENE-1-AL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	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
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.