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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
CARVONE 19 Plant Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
CARVONE 19 Shoot Essent. Oil 16000.0 -0.67 *
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Plant 18.0 3196.0 3.66 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Essential Oil *
CHAVICOL 6 Plant 3.0 -0.71 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.
CHAVICOL-METHYL-ESTER 0 Essential Oil 22400.0 *
CHAVICOL-METHYL-ESTER 0 Shoot Essent. Oil 667500.0 *
CHAVICOL-METHYL-ETHER 0 Plant 500.0 5658.0 *
CINNAMIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Essential Oil *
CINNAMIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Leaf *
CINNAMIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 45200.0 538000.0 *
CIS-3-HEXENOL 1 Plant *
CIS-ALLO-OCIMENE 0 Plant *
CIS-ANETHOLE 1 Plant *
CIS-CINNAMIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Flower Essent. Oil *
CIS-CINNAMIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Plant 67.0 900.0 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
CIS-CINNAMIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Shoot Essent. Oil 14500.0 *
CIS-GERANYL-ACETONE 0 Shoot Essent. Oil 1400.0 *
CIS-LIMONENE 0 Essential Oil 93300.0 *
CIS-LIMONENE 0 Plant 30.0 933.0 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
TOPO-2-Inhibitor 1 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 4 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 5 Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Toxic 4 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Tracheorelaxant 2 *
Tranquilizer 5 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal 7 *
Tremorigenic 1 *
Trichomonicide 15 *
Trichomonistat 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Trypanocide 2 *
Trypsin-Enhancer 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-93.
Tumor-Promoter 3 *
Tumorigenic 3 Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor 5 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic 3 HerbalGram No. 20, page 9.
Uricosuric 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant 1 Martindale's 29th