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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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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
GAMMA-ELEMENE 0 Shoot Essent. Oil 5800.0 16200.0 1.00 *
GAMMA-GUAIENE 0 Shoot Essent. Oil 42600.0 *
GAMMA-GURJUNENE 0 Plant *
GAMMA-MUUROLENE 0 Essential Oil *
GAMMA-MUUROLENE 0 Plant Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Leaf Essent. Oil 2000.0 14900.0 -0.53 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Plant 1.0 10.0 -0.53 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
GERANIAL 13 Leaf Essent. Oil 2000.0 -1.00 *
GERANIAL 26 Plant 5.0 -0.85 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.
GERANIAL 13 Shoot Essent. Oil 2100.0 *
GERANIOL 35 Essential Oil 100000.0 0.40 *
GERANIOL 35 Plant 3.0 -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.
GERANIOL 35 Plant 1.0 1000.0 -0.28 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
GERANIOL 35 Shoot Essent. Oil 1100.0 3900.0 *
GERANIOL-ACETATE 0 Essential Oil *
GERANIOL-ACETATE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 5000.0 -1.00 *
GERANYL-ACETATE 5 Leaf 11.0 84.0 -0.61 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
GERMACRENE-A 0 Shoot Essent. Oil 1500.0 *
GERMACRENE-D 2 Leaf Essent. Oil 11100.0 -0.60 *
GERMACRENE-D 4 Plant 35.0 -0.39 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.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Collagen-Sparing 1 *
Collagenic 2 *
Colorant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Comedolytic 1 *
COMT-Inhibitor 1 *
Congestant 1 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Contraceptive 1 Martindale's 28th
Controlled 1 HerbalGram No. 20, page 15.
Convulsant 3 R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Copper-Antagonist 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Copper-Chelator 2 *
Cosmetic 7 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Counterirritant 5 *
COX-1-Inhibitor 5 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 10 *
Culicide 3 *
Cyclin-B1-Inhibitor 1 *
Cyclin-D1-Inhibitor 1 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 8 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A1-Inhibitor 1 *