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
Antiarteriosclerotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	13	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	13	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	10	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacillus	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	57	Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibiotic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibradiquinic	1	Fitoterapia No.61: 277, 1990.
Antibradyarrhythmic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antibronchitic	4	Martindale's 28th
Anticancer	16	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Bladder)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	4	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *