Table 3 Evaluation of herbal tea plants using CFSI (> 1000) and RFC index
From: Ethnobotanical study on herbal tea drinks in Guangxi, China
Species | Indices | Ranking | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
CFSI | RFC | CFSI | RFC | |
Siraitia grosvenorii (Swingle) C. Jeffrey ex A. M. Lu & Zhi Y. Zhang | 5370.0 | 0.773 | 1 | 1 |
Plantago asiatica L | 4664.4 | 0.646 | 2 | 5 |
Gynostemma pentaphyllum (Thunb.) Makino | 3244.8 | 0.562 | 3 | 9 |
Zingiber officinale Roscoe | 3105.0 | 0.745 | 4 | 2 |
Pholidota chinensis Lindl | 2885.6 | 0.616 | 5 | 7 |
Morus alba L | 2466.0 | 0.592 | 6 | 8 |
Crataegus scabrifolia (Franch.) Rehder | 2151.6 | 0.551 | 7 | 10 |
Centella asiatica (L.) Urb | 1958.4 | 0.294 | 8 | 34 |
Murraya tetramera C. C. Huang | 1782.0 | 0.356 | 9 | 23 |
Sarcandra glabra (Thunb.) Nakai | 1689.6 | 0.380 | 10 | 17 |
Imperata cylindrica (L.) Raeusch | 1674.0 | 0.402 | 11 | 15 |
Jasminum sambac (L.) Aiton | 1636.2 | 0.654 | 12 | 4 |
Ficus carica L | 1474.2 | 0.393 | 13 | 16 |
Artemisia anomala S. Moore | 1408.3 | 0.05 | 14 | 89 |
Ilex kudingcha C. J. Tseng | 1380.6 | 0.637 | 15 | 6 |
Lithocarpus litseifolius (Hance) Chun | 1377.0 | 0.551 | 16 | 10 |
Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl | 1343.3 | 0.430 | 17 | 14 |
Anoectochilus roxburghii (Wall.) Lindl | 1332.0 | 0.320 | 18 | 31 |
Scoparia dulcis L | 1296.0 | 0.259 | 19 | 36 |
Microcos paniculate L | 1293.6 | 0.529 | 20 | 12 |
Cymbopogon mekongens A. Camus | 1255.5 | 0.335 | 21 | 26 |
Ampelopsis grossedentata (Hand.-Mazz.) J. Wen & Z. L. Nie | 1202.4 | 0.361 | 22 | 21 |
Platostoma palustre (Blume) A. J. Paton | 1117.8 | 0.149 | 23 | 47 |
Orthosiphon aristatus (Blume) Miq | 1017.4 | 0.339 | 24 | 25 |