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
P-METHOXYBENZALDEHYDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-METHOXYCINNAMALDEHYDE	2	Essential Oil	1000.0	4000.0	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
P-METHOXYCINNAMALDEHYDE	2	Flower Essent. Oil	not available	40000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	not available	16940.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
PHELLANDRENE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
PHENYL-ETHYL-ALCOHOL	0	Plant	18.0	136.0	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Leaf	380.0	5235.0	0.05	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Leaf	not available	1060.0	-0.47	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PLANTEOSE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POLYSACCHARIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Leaf	4290.0	42900.0	0.55	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Leaf	not available	5880.0	-0.78	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROPIONIC-ACID	6	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Leaf	33000.0	240000.0	0.28	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	not available	214000.0	-0.18	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-GLYCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Leaf	3.0	4.0	-0.16	Duke, 1992 *
ROSMARINIC-ACID	57	Plant	1000.0	19000.0	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antilaryngitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiLegionella	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileishmanic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antilepric	3	Martindale's 28th
Antileukemic	11	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukonychic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukoplakic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene-D4	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antilisteria	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic?	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilupus	1	Martindale's 28th
AntiLyme	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphocytic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphomic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antimaculitic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial	7	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.