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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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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
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Leaf 19100.0 1.93 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Tissue Culture *
CAFFEIC-ACID-N-BUTYL-ESTER 0 Leaf 252.0 *
CALAMENE 0 Plant *
CALAMENENE 0 Shoot Essent. Oil 600.0 *
CALCIUM 28 Leaf 3200.0 23700.0 0.36 *
CAMPESTEROL 2 Leaf 90.0 -0.38 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CAMPHENE 9 Essential Oil 900.0 -0.67 *
CAMPHENE 9 Leaf Essent. Oil 300.0 900.0 -0.85 *
CAMPHENE 9 Plant 0.0 400.0 0.08 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
CAMPHENE 9 Shoot Essent. Oil 500.0 -0.81 *
CAMPHOR 41 Essential Oil 2100.0 7200.0 -1.19 *
CAMPHOR 41 Leaf Essent. Oil 10000.0 -0.78 *
CAMPHOR 41 Plant 2.0 31.0 -0.64 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
CAMPHOR 41 Shoot Essent. Oil 4500.0 -1.00 *
CAPROIC-ACID 1 Essential Oil *
CARBOHYDRATE 0 Leaf 70000.0 652000.0 0.15 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Leaf 70000.0 610000.0 -0.01 *
CARVACROL 37 Plant *
CARVACROL 37 Shoot Essent. Oil 6800.0 -0.72 *
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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 *