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

Common Names

Tea

How this plant is used

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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
(+)-3-(S)-7-DIMETHYL-OCTA-1,5-DIENE-3,7-DIOL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Anther	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Leaf	85.2	13200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CATECHOL	4	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-EPIGALLOCATECHIN-GALLATE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-GALLOCATECHIN	7	Leaf	not available	2100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-GALLOCATECHOL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPI-GALLO-CATECHOL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPIAFZELECHIN	2	Leaf	not available	6.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPIAFZELECHIN-3-O-GALLATE	0	Leaf	not available	37.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN	38	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN	38	Leaf	960.0	32500.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN	38	Stem	0.1	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN	38	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN-3-GALLATE	0	Leaf	not available	8200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN-3-O(3-O-METHYL)-GALLATE	0	Leaf	not available	800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN-3-O-(4-O-METHYL)-GALLATE	0	Leaf	not available	16.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN-3-O-GALLATE	7	Leaf	3077.0	3180.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Phagocytotic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Pheromonal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Photoactive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Photosensitizer	1	Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.
Phytoalexin	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Phytohormonal	1	Russell, G. B., Phytochemical resources for crop protection, N. Z. J. Technol., 2, 1986, 127-134.
Pituitary-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
PKC-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Poultice	1	Martindale's 29th
Preservative	1	Merck 11th Edition
Progestational	1	Duke, 1992 *
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	6	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *