Plant Ocimum basilicum (Lamiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Basil; Sweet Basil; Cuban Basil

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
DELTA-CADINENE	18	Plant	not available	5.0	-0.53	Die Nahrung. Pino, J., Rosado, A., Goire, I., Roncal, E., and Garcia, I. 1993. Analysis of the Essential Oil from Cuban Basil. Die Nahrung 37:(5): 501-504.
DELTA-CADINENE	9	Shoot Essent. Oil	2600.0	66600.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-GUAIENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ELEMOL	2	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Plant	not available	2500.0	-0.55	Die Nahrung. Pino, J., Rosado, A., Goire, I., Roncal, E., and Garcia, I. 1993. Analysis of the Essential Oil from Cuban Basil. Die Nahrung 37:(5): 501-504.
EO	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ERIODICTYOL	10	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ERIODICTYOL-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ERIODICTYOL-7-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Plantes Medicinales et Phytotherapie, 24: 193.
ESCULETIN	30	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Plantes Medicinales et Phytotherapie, 24: 193.
ESCULIN	29	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ESTRAGOLE	12	Essential Oil	300.0	872100.0	0.72	Duke, 1992 *
ESTRAGOLE	12	Flower Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ESTRAGOLE	12	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ESTRAGOLE	12	Leaf Essent. Oil	7500.0	900000.0	1.04	Duke, 1992 *
ESTRAGOLE	12	Plant	35.0	9000.0	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *
ESTRAGOLE	12	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Essential Oil	300.0	857500.0	1.71	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Leaf	14.0	8575.0	0.19	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Leaf Essent. Oil	51200.0	270000.0	-0.31	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
(-)-Chronotropic	2	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
(-)-Inotropic	2	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
5-HT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
ABeta-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	4	Duke, 1992 *
Acaricide	9	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	7	Duke, 1992 *
AChE-Inhibitor	1	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Acidulant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Additive	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Adenylate-Cyclase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Adjuvant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	19	Duke, 1992 *
Allelochemic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Allelopathic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Allergenic	28	Martindale's 29th