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.
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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 *