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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
LINALOOL 53 Shoot Essent. Oil 49500.0 177100.0 0.32 *
LINALOOL-ACETATE 0 Essential Oil *
LINALOOL-ACETATE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 6000.0 -1.11 *
LINALOOL-ACETATE 0 Shoot Essent. Oil 2400.0 *
LINALYL-ACETATE 7 Plant 15.0 240.0 -0.46 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Seed 53240.0 145200.0 0.33 *
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Seed 50820.0 121000.0 1.53 *
LUTEOLIN 78 Plant Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
LYSINE 4 Leaf 6180.0 -1.52 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MAGNESIUM 65 Leaf 4100.0 4340.0 0.08 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MANGANESE 14 Leaf 32.0 -0.41 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MENTHOL 63 Essential Oil *
MENTHOL 63 Plant 4.0 32.0 -0.62 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
MENTHONE 30 Essential Oil *
MENTHONE 30 Plant 1.0 -0.52 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
METHIONINE 15 Leaf 2020.0 -0.89 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
METHYL-CHAVICOL 6 Plant 238.0 8780.0 0.83 *
METHYL-CINNAMATE 5 Plant 1.0 2800.0 *
METHYL-EUGENOL 20 Plant 13.0 1400.0 0.97 *
METHYL-ISOEUGENOL 15 Plant *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Urinary-Antiseptic 1 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Urine-Acidifier 1 Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant 1 Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterotonic 1 *
Uterotrophic 2 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
UV-Screen 2 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Varroacide 3 *
Vasoactive 1 *
Vasodilator 14 *
Vasopressor 3 *
Vasoprotective 3 *
VEGF-Inhibitor 3 *
Vermicide 2 *
Vermifuge 2 *
Verrucolytic 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Vibriocide 2 *
Vulnerary 6 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor 7 Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 1772.