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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Ocimum americanum

Common Name
Basilic

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Uses for this plant.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Country/Region Reference
Inhalant Trinidad *
Inhalant Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Parasiticide Elsewhere *
Refrigerant Elsewhere *
Repellant(Insect) Zanzibar *
Respiratory Trinidad *
Stimulant Elsewhere *
Stimulant Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Stomach Africa(Swahili) *
Tonic Elsewhere *
Tuberculosis Elsewhere *
Tumor West Indies Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Tumor French Guiana Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.