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Plant Camellia sinensis (Theaceae)

Common Names
Tea
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
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 *