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
ETHYL-LACTATE	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-OCTANOATE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-PHENYLACETATE	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-PYRAZINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUPHOL	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUPHOL	1	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FARNESOL	17	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	20000.0	165000.0	2.16	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Leaf	87000.0	300000.0	1.71	Duke, 1992 *
FLAVONOL-GLYCOSIDES	0	Leaf	500.0	4400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FLAVONOLS	0	Leaf	not available	400.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
FLUORIDE	3	Leaf	not available	188.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURYL-ALCOHOL	1	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.
GADOLEIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GADOLEIC-ACID	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALEGINE	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
GALLIC-ACID	62	Leaf	not available	3500.0	-0.75	Duke, 1992 *
GALLOCATECHIN	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
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 *