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
BETA-CYCLOCITRAL	0	Shoot	800.0	1000.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-DAMASCENONE	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-DAMASCONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-GAMMA-HEXENOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-GLUCOGALLIN	0	Leaf	not available	28.4	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-IONONE	13	Leaf	not available	31.0	0.14	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-IONONE	13	Leaf Essent. Oil	200.0	3100.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-IONONE	13	Shoot	1700.0	2900.0	2.00	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SESQUIPHELLANDRENE	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Leaf	2130.0	2230.0	0.13	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BRASSICASTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BRASSICASTEROL	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BRASSINOLIDE	3	Leaf	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BRASSINONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTAN-2-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYRALDEHYDE	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYRIC-ACID	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYROIN	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
Lipolytic	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Lipotropic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lipoxygenase-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	19	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Lithogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Litholytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lubricant	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lyase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lypolytic	1	Bruneton, J. 1999. Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants. 2nd Ed. Lavoisier Publishing, Paris. 1119 pp.
MAO-A-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
MAPK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mast-Cell-Stabilizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Metal-Chelator	2	McEvily, A.J., Iyengar, R., and Gross, A.T. Inhibition of Polyphenol Oxidase by Phenolic Compounds. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.25.
Metal-Chelator (Copper)	1	Seidel, V., Verholle, M., Malard, Y., Tillequin, F., Fruchart, J-C., Duriez, P., Bailleul, F., Teissier, E. 2000. Phenylpropanoids from Ballota nigra L. Inhibit in vitro LDL Peroxidation. Phytotherapy Research, 14(2): 93-98.
Metalloproteinase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Metastatic	1	Science News, 146: 421.
Methyl-Guanidine-Inhibitor	2	McKenna, D. J., Hughes, K., and Jones, K. 2000. Green Tea Monograph. Alternative Therapies, 6(3): 61-82.
Mitogen	3	Duke, 1992 *
MMP-9-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *