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
BUTYROSPERMOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYROSPERMOL	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE	62	Anther	0.1	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE	62	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE	62	Leaf	3810.0	93000.0	1.38	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE	62	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE	62	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE	62	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE	62	Seed Coat	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE	62	Shoot	38100.0	47900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE	62	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE	62	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	327.0	2456.0	-1.09	Duke, 1992 *
CAMELLIA-GALACTOGLUCAN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMELLIA-POLYSACCHARIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMELLIA-SINENSIS-POLYSACCHARIDE-TSA	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMELLIAGENIN-A	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMELLIAGENIN-D	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
CAMELLIANIN-A	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
Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ozone-Scavenger	1	Duke, 1992 *
P21-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
P450-1A-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
P450-2B-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
P450-2B1-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer	4	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inhibitor	2	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Pancreatogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Paralytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Parasiticide	3	Duke, 1992 *
Pediculicide	1	Merck 11th Edition
Percutaneostimulant	1	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfume	2	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.
Perfumery	34	Merck 11th Edition
Peristaltic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Peroxynitrite-Scavenger	2	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	84	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *