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
ROSMARINIC-ACID	57	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ROSMARINIC-ACID	57	Shoot	not available	1300.0	-0.79	Duke, 1992 *
ROSMARINIC-ACID	57	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Essential Oil	not available	2500.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Leaf Essent. Oil	2000.0	3900.0	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Plant	not available	8.0	-0.45	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.
SABINENE	5	Shoot Essent. Oil	3100.0	3500.0	-0.79	Duke, 1992 *
SAFROLE	29	Plant	60.0	400.0	0.85	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLIC-ACID-2-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAMBULENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONIN	0	Plant	not available	50000.0	0.60	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
SERINE	1	Leaf	not available	5610.0	-1.17	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SESQUITHUJENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
SESQUITHUJENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Leaf	120.0	890.0	-0.49	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Plant	294.0	386.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
SPATHULENOL	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	16700.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed	not available	485.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL	12	Leaf	not available	180.0	1.19	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.