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Common Names
Tea
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPIGALLOCATECHIN-3-O-CINNAMATE | 0 | Leaf | not available | 13.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| EPIGALLOCATECHIN-3-O-GALLATE | 3 | Leaf | not available | 224.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| EPIGALLOCATECHIN-3-O-GALLATE-(4-BETA-6)-EPICATECHIN-3-O-GALLATE | 0 | Leaf | not available | 4.2 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| EPIGALLOCATECHIN-3-O-GALLATE-(4-BETA-6)-EPICATECHIN-3-O-GALLATE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| EPIGALLOCATECHIN-3-O-GALLATE-(4-BETA-8)-EPICATECHIN-3-O-GALLATE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| EPIGALLOCATECHIN-3-O-GALLATE-(4-BETA-8)-EPICATECHIN-GALLATE | 0 | Leaf | not available | 44.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| EPIGALLOCATECHIN-3-O-P-CAFFEOATE | 0 | Leaf | not available | 2.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| EPIGALLOCATECHIN-3-O-P-COUMARATE | 0 | Leaf | not available | 83.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| EPIGALLOCATECHIN-GALLATE | 3 | Leaf | 16600.0 | 54300.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| EPIGALLOCATECHOL | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| EPIGALLOCATECHOL-GALLATE | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| EPITHEAFLAGALLIN | 0 | Leaf | 6.0 | 74.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| EPITHEAFLAGALLIN-3-O-GALLATE | 0 | Leaf | 17.0 | 200.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| EPITHEAFLAVIC-ACID | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| EPITHEAFLAVIC-ACID-GALLATE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ERUCIC-ACID | 2 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ERUCIC-ACID | 2 | Seed Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ETHER | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ETHYL-3-HYDROXY-BUTYRATE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ETHYL-ACETATE | 6 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Transdermal | 5 | 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. |
| Tremorigenic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Trichomonicide | 11 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Trichomonistat | 1 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
| Trypsin-Enhancer | 1 | Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-93. |
| Tumor-Promoter | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Tumorigenic | 4 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Tyrosinase-Inhibitor | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor | 2 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170. |
| Ubiquiot | 5 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Ulcerogenic | 4 | HerbalGram No. 20, page 9. |
| Uricosuric | 4 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Urinary-Acidulant | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Urinary-Antiseptic | 1 | Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989. |
| Urokinase-Inhibitor | 1 | McKenna, D. J., Hughes, K., and Jones, K. 2000. Green Tea Monograph. Alternative Therapies, 6(3): 61-82. |
| Uterorelaxant | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Uterosedative | 1 | Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990. |
| Uterotrophic | 3 | Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999. |
| Varroacide | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Vasoconstrictor | 1 | Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980. |