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
PRODELPHINIDIN-B-4-3'-O-GALLATE	0	Leaf	not available	64.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PRODELPHINIDIN-B-5-3,3'-DI-O-GALLATE	0	Leaf	not available	30.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PROLINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROPIONALDEHYDE	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROPIONIC-ACID	6	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Leaf	150000.0	283000.0	0.71	Duke, 1992 *
PSEUDOTARAXASTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PSEUDOTARAXASTEROL	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PYRIDINE	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PYRROL-2-METHYLKETONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Leaf	not available	10000.0	-0.19	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-GLUCOSYL-(1-3)-RHAMNOSYL-(1-6)-GALACTOSIDE	0	Leaf	760.0	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-GALACTOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
QUERCETIN-3-O-RHAMNODIGLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	3170.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-RHAMNODIGLUCOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-FRUCTOSYL-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-TRIGLUCOSIDE	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.