Plant Ocimum basilicum (Lamiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Basil; Sweet Basil; Cuban Basil

How this plant is used

Food

Select a Results View:

Download these results as:

CSV

EXCEL

PDF

List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
ALPHA-CADINENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
ALPHA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CEDRENE	3	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CEDRENE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
ALPHA-COPAENE	0	Plant	not available	0.8	-0.54	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.
ALPHA-COPAENE	0	Plant	0.8	20.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-COPAENE	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	300.0	3600.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CUBEBENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	1200.0	-0.73	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CUBEBENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CUBEBENE	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	2800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-FARNESENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-FENCHENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-FENCHONE	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	1300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-FENCHYL-ALCOHOL	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	2800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-GUAIENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-GUAIENE	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	1300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE	2	Essential Oil	not available	31300.0	-0.20	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE	2	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	5650.0	-0.52	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE	4	Plant	not available	16.0	-0.63	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.
ALPHA-HUMULENE	2	Shoot Essent. Oil	6700.0	11800.0	0.82	Duke, 1992 *

Download these results as:

CSV

EXCEL

PDF

List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
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	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Vasoactive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	14	Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Vasoprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Vermicide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Vermifuge	2	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	6	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	7	Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 1772.