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
GLYCINE	12	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUAIACOL	18	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUM	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPT-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTA-2-TRANS-EN-1-AL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTA-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Shoot	600.0	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTA-TRANS-2-TRANSDIEN-4-1-AL	0	Shoot	600.0	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-1-AL	0	Leaf	200.0	300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-1-AL	0	Shoot	200.0	300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-2-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-2-ONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-2-ONE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-3-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTANAL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-1-EN-3-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-AL	0	Leaf	not available	370.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	21500.0	150000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL	0	Shoot	900.0	1300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL-ACETATE	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.