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
CHONDRILLASTEROL	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ACID	18	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-BETA-OCIMENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-JASMONE	0	Leaf	not available	20.0	-0.48	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-JASMONE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	500.0	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-JASMONENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-LINALOL-OXIDE	0	Shoot	600.0	1600.0	2.82	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-LINALOOL-OXIDE	0	Shoot	600.0	1600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRAL-ALPHA	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLOL	15	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Leaf	not available	20.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
CRYPTOXANTHIN	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOHEXANONES	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CYSTEINE	13	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D,L-CATECHIN	0	Leaf	not available	2664.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAMMARADIENOL	3	Seed Oil	not available	30.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIENE-1-AL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	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
Antienterotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiepileptic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antierythemic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiesophagitic	2	Martindale's 29th
Antiestrogenic	5	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiexudative	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifatigue	6	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antifeedant	14	Duke, 1992 *
Antifertility	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	9	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigargantitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastritic	4	Martindale's 29th