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
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 *

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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
Anticancer (Liver)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Pancreas)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Prostate)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility	2	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Anticarcinogenic	5	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticarcinomic (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticardiospasmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticaries	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	17	Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticarpal-Tunnel	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract	9	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticellulitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticephalagic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic	3	Duke, 1992 *