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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Ocimum basilicum (Lamiaceae)

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
ALPHA-MUUROLENE 0 Plant Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
ALPHA-P-DIMETHYL-STYRENE 0 Plant *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Essential Oil 300.0 18000.0 -0.40 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Leaf Essent. Oil 3700.0 13000.0 -0.68 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Plant 2.0 180.0 -0.35 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Shoot Essent. Oil 4600.0 7200.0 -0.46 *
ALPHA-SANTALENE 0 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-SELINENE 3 Plant *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Essential Oil 400.0 -0.77 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Leaf Essent. Oil 600.0 -0.70 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Plant 1.0 10.0 -0.49 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Shoot Essent. Oil 300.0 -0.96 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Essential Oil 6700.0 23900.0 0.29 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Leaf Essent. Oil 5650.0 7000.0 -0.72 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Plant 36.0 239.0 -0.30 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Shoot Essent. Oil 9600.0 1.40 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL ACETATE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 45100.0 0.40 *
ALPHA-TERPINYL-ACETATE 0 Plant *
ALPHA-THUJONE 6 Plant *
ANETHOLE 36 Essential Oil *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Spermicide 3 Martindale's 28th
Spermigenic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Sprout-Inhibitor 1 Duke, J.A.. Personal Communication.
Stimulant 1 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.
Stomachic 1 *
Succinoxidase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sunscreen 7 *
Suppository 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Surfactant 1 *
Sweetener 2 *
Sympathomimetic 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.
Teratogenic 1 *
Teratologic 2 *
Termiticide 5 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Termitifuge 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosterone-Hydroxylase-Inducer 1 *
Testosterone-Inducer 1 *
Testosteronigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Thymoprotective 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 5 *