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
GALLOCATECHIN-(4-ALPHA-8)-EPICATECHIN	0	Leaf	not available	37.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLOCATECHIN-GALLATE	1	Leaf	not available	1880.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLOCATECHOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIAL	13	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.
GERANIOL	35	Leaf	2.0	2546.0	0.95	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL	35	Leaf Essent. Oil	31600.0	254600.0	1.48	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL	35	Shoot	800.0	1200.0	0.24	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERMANICOL	0	Seed Oil	not available	25.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERMANIUM	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLIN-A-1	0	Endosperm	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLIN-A-19	0	Endosperm	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLIN-A-20	0	Endosperm	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLIN-A-3	0	Endosperm	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLIN-A-38	0	Endosperm	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLIN-A-44	0	Endosperm	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLIN-A-8	0	Endosperm	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLIN-A-S	0	Endosperm	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOTHEASAPONIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMINE	5	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.