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
HEX-TRANS-3-ENYL-BUTYRATE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-TRANS-3-ENYL-HEX-CIS-3-ENOATE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-TRANS-3-ENYL-HEX-CIS-3-ENONATE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-TRANS-3-ENYL-METHYL-BUTYRATE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-TRANS-3-ENYL-PROPIONATE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXA-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXAN-1-AL	0	Shoot	5500.0	10300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXAN-2-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXENOIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXOIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXYL-BUTYRATE	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXYL-FORMATE	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXYL-PHENYLACETATE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HISTIDINE	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYPEROSIDE	30	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYPOXANTHINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INDOLE	15	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INOSITOL	8	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Leaf	189.0	1500.0	2.88	Duke, 1992 *
ISOAMYL-ACETATE	2	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 *