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
PHOSPHORUS	4	Leaf	3200.0	4150.0	-0.15	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHYTOENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOFLUENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Leaf	2600.0	11400.0	3.08	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
POLYPHENOL-OXIDASE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POLYPHENOLS	30	Leaf	100000.0	390000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POLYSACCHARIDE-T-B	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Plant	not available	17600.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-2	1	Leaf	not available	5.8	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-2-3'-O-GALLATE	3	Leaf	not available	167.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PROCYANIDIN-B-2-3,3'-DI-O-GALLATE	3	Leaf	not available	160.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PROCYANIDIN-B-3	2	Leaf	10.6	2100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-4	4	Leaf	not available	46.6	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-4-3'-O-GALLATE	0	Leaf	not available	141.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PROCYANIDIN-B-5-3,3'-DI-O-GALLATE	2	Leaf	not available	141.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PROCYANIDIN-C-1	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PRODELPHINIDIN-A-2-3'-O-GALLATE	0	Leaf	not available	4.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PRODELPHINIDIN-B-2-3'-O-GALLATE	0	Leaf	18.0	238.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PRODELPHINIDIN-B-2-3,3'-DI-O-GALLATE	0	Leaf	not available	18.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PRODELPHINIDIN-B-4	0	Leaf	56.8	800.0	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
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.