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
GERMACRENE-D	2	Shoot Essent. Oil	13600.0	36200.0	-1.28	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Leaf	not available	15650.0	-1.20	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GLYCINE	12	Leaf	not available	6900.0	-0.93	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
HEX-CIS-2-EN-1-OL-BUTYRATE	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL-ACETATE	0	Essential Oil	not available	500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL-ACETATE	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXAHYDROFARNESYL-ACETONE	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	4400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXAN-1-AL	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HISTIDINE	7	Leaf	not available	2870.0	-1.26	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
HUMULENE	2	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HUMULENE-EPOXIDE	0	Plant	not available	0.2	not available	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.
HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID-4-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Leaf	48.0	478.0	0.29	Duke, 1992 *
ISOCARYOPHYLLENE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOEUGENOL	16	Plant	8.0	95.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOEUGENOL-METHYL-ETHER	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
ISOLEUCINE	3	Leaf	not available	5880.0	-1.59	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ISOQUERCITRIN	22	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JUVOCIMENE-I	0	Essential Oil	not available	5.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JUVOCIMENE-I	0	Plant	0.0	0.1	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.

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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
Gram(-)icide	2	Duke, 1992 *
GST-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemostat	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatocarcinogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	2	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	17	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoregenerative	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Hepatotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	3	Martindale's 29th
Hepatotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	15	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
HIF-1alpha-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Histamine-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Histaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	2	Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypercholesterolemic	1	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypertensive	5	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
Hyperthermic	1	HerbalGram No. 22 - Spring 1990, page 45.