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
QUERCIMERITRIN	6	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN	44	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
QUINIC-ACID	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
QUINOLINE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Leaf	8.0	12.0	-0.12	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RUTIN	87	Leaf	1200.0	1580.0	-0.91	Duke, 1992 *
S-METHYL-METHIONINE	0	Leaf	70.0	245.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
SAFRANAL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAFROLE	29	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLALDEHYDE	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLATES	7	Leaf	5.0	65.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLIC-ACID	34	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SERINE	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILICA	0	Leaf	not available	240.0	-1.38	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Leaf	300.0	500.0	-0.56	Duke, 1992 *
SPINASTEROL	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPINASTERONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
SPINASTERONE	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STARCH	5	Leaf	not available	5000.0	-0.82	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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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 *