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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Ocimum sanctum

Common Name
Lampes; L.; Ruku-ruku merah; Kami-Me-Boki; Ruku-ruku; Selaseh; Kemangen; Surasa; Oku

Activities

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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
Demulcent Elsewhere *
Diaphoretic Elsewhere *
Dropsy India(Santal) *
Expectorant Elsewhere ANON. 1978. List of Plants. Kyoto Herbal Garden, Parmacognostic Research Lab., Central Research Division, Takeda Chem. Industries, Ltd., Ichijoji, Sakyoku, Kyoto, Japan.
Expectorant Nepal *
Expectorant Nepal Singh, M.P., et al. 1979. Medicinal plants of Nepal - Retrospects and prospects. Economic Botany 33(2): 185-198.
Expectorant Elsewhere *
Febrifuge Elsewhere ANON. 1978. List of Plants. Kyoto Herbal Garden, Parmacognostic Research Lab., Central Research Division, Takeda Chem. Industries, Ltd., Ichijoji, Sakyoku, Kyoto, Japan.
Fever Malaya *
Fever India(Santal) *
Gastritis Elsewhere *
Gastrosis Malaya *
Gravel India(Santal) *
Hemiplegia India(Santal) *
Hemorrhage India(Santal) *
Insecticide Elsewhere *
Labor India(Santal) *
Lactagogue Malaya *
Laxative Malaya *
Laxative India(Santal) *