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

Common Names
Basil; Sweet Basil; Cuban Basil
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Shoot Essent. Oil 2300.0 13900.0 -1.12 *
BETA-CEDRENE 0 Plant Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
BETA-CUBEBENE 0 Plant *
BETA-CUBEBENE 0 Shoot Essent. Oil 3700.0 *
BETA-CYMENE 0 Essential Oil 3600.0 1.00 Hussain, R.A., et. al. 1990. Sweetening Agents of Plant Origin: Phenylpropanoid Constituents of Seven Sweet-Tasting Plants. Econ. Bot. 44 2: 174-182. Program Collab. Res. Pharm. Sci. Coll. Pharmacy Univ. Illinois at Chicago IL 60680, USA.
BETA-CYMENE 0 Plant 5.0 36.0 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
BETA-DAMASCENONE 3 Shoot Essent. Oil 1700.0 *
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Essential Oil 16100.0 -0.91 *
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Plant 12.0 -0.43 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.
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Shoot Essent. Oil 4900.0 81600.0 1.41 *
BETA-EUDESMOL 13 Shoot Essent. Oil 3000.0 -1.00 *
BETA-IONONE 13 Shoot Essent. Oil 1600.0 *
BETA-MYRCENE 2 Essential Oil *
BETA-MYRCENE 2 Plant Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
BETA-OCIMENE 0 Plant 1.0 435.0 *
BETA-OCIMENE 0 Shoot Essent. Oil *
BETA-PINENE 13 Essential Oil 5500.0 16000.0 -0.38 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Leaf Essent. Oil 7300.0 2000.0 -0.93 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Plant 3.0 160.0 -0.26 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Shoot Essent. Oil 8200.0 9300.0 1.12 *
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List of plant activities.
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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 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 4 *
5-HT-Inhibitor 1 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 4 *
ABeta-Inhibitor 1 *
Abortifacient 4 *
Acaricide 9 *
ACE-Inhibitor 7 *
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 *
Adjuvant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor 2 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 19 *
Allelochemic 6 *
Allelopathic 7 *
Allergenic 28 Martindale's 29th