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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
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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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antibacterial 52 Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antiberiberi 1 *
AntiBPH 1 *
Antibronchitic 4 Martindale's 28th
Antiburn 1 Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Anticancer 14 *
Anticancer (Breast) 1 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 2 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Anticancer (Colon) 1 Ringbom, T., Seguar, L., Noreen, Y., Perera, P., Bohlin, L. 1998. Ursolic Acid from Plantago major, a Selective Inhibitor of Cyclooxygenase-2 Catalyzed Prostaglandin Biosynthesis. J. Nat. Prod., 61(10): 1212-1215.
Anticancer (Lung) 2 *
Anticancer (Pancreas) 2 *
Anticancer (Prostate) 1 *
Anticanker 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility 6 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Anticarcinogenic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 5 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast) 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticarcinomic (Colon) 1 *
Anticarcinomic (Lung) 1 *
Anticardiospasmic 1 *