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

Common Names

Basil; Sweet Basil; Cuban Basil

How this plant is used

Food

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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
BETA-SANTALENE	2	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SELINENE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Flower	not available	1051.0	-0.81	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Leaf	790.0	1705.0	-0.16	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Root	not available	408.0	-0.27	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Seed	not available	527.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Sprout Seedling	not available	230.0	-1.10	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Stem	not available	845.0	0.24	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-TERPINENE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	28000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-THUJONE	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETAPELEMENE	0	Plant	not available	12.0	not available	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.
BORNEOL	35	Essential Oil	not available	1200.0	-0.90	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL	70	Plant	not available	3.0	-0.67	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.
BORNEOL	35	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	1200.0	-0.79	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE	0	Essential Oil	5200.0	90000.0	0.20	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	10000.0	14400.0	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE	0	Plant	90.0	900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	4700.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Plant	18.0	31.0	-0.49	Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron).
BUTYRIC-ACID	6	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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	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.