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
GLYCINE	12	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUAIACOL	18	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUM	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPT-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTA-2-TRANS-EN-1-AL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTA-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Shoot	600.0	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTA-TRANS-2-TRANSDIEN-4-1-AL	0	Shoot	600.0	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-1-AL	0	Leaf	200.0	300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-1-AL	0	Shoot	200.0	300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-2-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-2-ONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-2-ONE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-3-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTANAL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-1-EN-3-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-AL	0	Leaf	not available	370.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	21500.0	150000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL	0	Shoot	900.0	1300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL-ACETATE	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
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.