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
NEROLIDOL	11	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	4700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Leaf	8.0	69.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
NONANAL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-METHOXYCINNAMALDEHYDE	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCIMENE	2	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCIMENE	2	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	1000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-1-OL	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-1-OL-ACETATE	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	1700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTANOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTEN-1-OL-ACETATE	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Flower	not available	1300.0	-0.64	Duke, 1992 *
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Leaf	not available	1700.0	0.19	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	26620.0	36300.0	-0.68	Duke, 1992 *
ORIENTIN	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Leaf	not available	760.0	-0.15	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Essential Oil	not available	2400.0	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	300.0	-0.77	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Plant	1.0	16.0	-0.42	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
P-CYMENE	16	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	300.0	-1.40	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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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.