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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Camellia sinensis (Theaceae)

Common Names
Tea
How this plant is used
Food
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
CAMELLIANIN-B 0 Leaf *
CAMELLIASIDE-A 0 Seed 656.0 2733.3 *
CAMELLIASIDE-B 0 Seed 291.0 3026.6 *
CAMELLIASIDE-C 0 Seed 2.5 *
CAMPESTEROL 2 Seed *
CAMPESTEROL 2 Seed Oil *
CAPROALDEHYDE 0 Leaf *
CAPROIC-ACID 1 Leaf *
CAPRYLLIC-ACID 0 Plant *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Leaf 536000.0 590000.0 -0.17 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CARVACROL 37 Leaf *
CASTASTERONE 0 Leaf 0.1 *
CATECHIN-(4-ALPHA-8)-EPIGALLOCATECHIN 0 Leaf 45.4 *
CATECHIN-(4-ALPHA-8)-EPIGALLOCATECHIN-3-GALLATE 0 Leaf *
CATECHOL-TANNINS 0 Leaf 100000.0 200000.0 0.71 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
CHASAPONIN 0 Plant *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Leaf *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Tissue Culture *
CHLOROPHYLL 21 Leaf 5000.0 -0.68 *
CHONDRILLASTEROL 0 Seed *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Insulinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic 5 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Insulinotonic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-1-alpha-Inhibitor 1 *
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 3 *
Interleukin-6-mRNA-Inhibitor 1 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 24 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
JNK-Inhibitor 1 *
Juvabional 6 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Keratitigenic 1 *
Keratolytic 3 Martindale's 28th
Larvicide 4 *
Larvistat 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 7 Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Laxative? 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leptingenic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 *