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
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Leaf	not available	19100.0	1.93	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID-N-BUTYL-ESTER	0	Leaf	not available	252.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALAMENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALAMENENE	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	3200.0	23700.0	0.36	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Leaf	not available	90.0	-0.38	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CAMPHENE	9	Essential Oil	not available	900.0	-0.67	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Leaf Essent. Oil	300.0	900.0	-0.85	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Plant	0.0	400.0	0.08	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
CAMPHENE	9	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	500.0	-0.81	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR	41	Essential Oil	2100.0	7200.0	-1.19	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR	41	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	10000.0	-0.78	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR	41	Plant	2.0	31.0	-0.64	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
CAMPHOR	41	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	4500.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CAPROIC-ACID	1	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATE	0	Leaf	70000.0	652000.0	0.15	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	70000.0	610000.0	-0.01	Duke, 1992 *
CARVACROL	37	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARVACROL	37	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	6800.0	-0.72	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