Common Names
Basil; Sweet Basil; Cuban Basil
How this plant is used
Food
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Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
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BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE | 0 | Shoot Essent. Oil | 2300.0 | 13900.0 | -1.12 | Duke, 1992 * |
BETA-CEDRENE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
BETA-CUBEBENE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
BETA-CUBEBENE | 0 | Shoot Essent. Oil | not available | 3700.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
BETA-CYMENE | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | 3600.0 | 1.00 | Hussain, R.A., et. al. 1990. Sweetening Agents of Plant Origin: Phenylpropanoid Constituents of Seven Sweet-Tasting Plants. Econ. Bot. 44 2: 174-182. Program Collab. Res. Pharm. Sci. Coll. Pharmacy Univ. Illinois at Chicago IL 60680, USA. |
BETA-CYMENE | 0 | Plant | 5.0 | 36.0 | not available | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
BETA-DAMASCENONE | 3 | Shoot Essent. Oil | not available | 1700.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
BETA-ELEMENE | 5 | Essential Oil | not available | 16100.0 | -0.91 | Duke, 1992 * |
BETA-ELEMENE | 5 | Plant | not available | 12.0 | -0.43 | 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. |
BETA-ELEMENE | 5 | Shoot Essent. Oil | 4900.0 | 81600.0 | 1.41 | Duke, 1992 * |
BETA-EUDESMOL | 13 | Shoot Essent. Oil | not available | 3000.0 | -1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
BETA-IONONE | 13 | Shoot Essent. Oil | not available | 1600.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
BETA-MYRCENE | 2 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
BETA-MYRCENE | 2 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
BETA-OCIMENE | 0 | Plant | 1.0 | 435.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
BETA-OCIMENE | 0 | Shoot Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
BETA-PINENE | 13 | Essential Oil | 5500.0 | 16000.0 | -0.38 | Duke, 1992 * |
BETA-PINENE | 13 | Leaf Essent. Oil | 7300.0 | 2000.0 | -0.93 | Duke, 1992 * |
BETA-PINENE | 13 | Plant | 3.0 | 160.0 | -0.26 | Duke, 1992 * |
BETA-PINENE | 13 | Shoot Essent. Oil | 8200.0 | 9300.0 | 1.12 | Duke, 1992 * |
Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
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Psychoactive | 2 | 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. |
Psychotropic | 1 | Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990. |
PTK-Inhibitor | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer | 4 | Uda, Y., Price, K. R., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1997. Induction of the Anticarcinogenic Marker Enzyme, Quinone Reductase, in Murine Hepatoma Cells In Vitro by Flavonoids. Cancer Lett., 120 (2): 213-216. |
Radioprotective | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
Refrigerant | 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. |
Renoirritant | 1 | Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp. |
Respirainhibitor | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
Respirastimulant | 1 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
Roborant | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
Rubefacient | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
Schizophrenigenic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
Secretogogue | 2 | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
Secretolytic | 2 | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
Sedative | 31 | Ortiz de Urbina, A.V., Martin*, M.L., Montero, M.J., Moran, A., and San Roman, L. 1988. Sedating and Antipyretic Activity of the Essential Oil of Calamintha sylvatica subsp. Ascendens. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 25: 165-171, 1989. |
Serotoninergic | 2 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
Soap | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Sodium-Sparing | 1 | Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp. |
Spasmogenic | 6 | Fitoterapia No.59-1984. |
Spasmolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |