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BORON	4	Plant	18.0	31.0	-0.49	Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages.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
Antidiarrheic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiscotic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidiuretic	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Mar-92.
Antidote (Acetaminophen)	1	Martindale's 29th
Antidote (Aluminum)	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antidote (Cadmium)	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Hypoglycin-A)	1	Martindale's 29th
Antidote (Lead)	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Paracetamol)	1	Martindale's 29th
Antidote (Paraquat)	1	Martindale's 28th
Antidote (Strychnine)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysenteric	4	HerbalGram No. 24, page 37.
Antidysgeuzic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidyskinetic	2	Martindale's 28th
Antidysmenorrheic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antidyspeptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysphagic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiEBV	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antieczemic	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiedemic	12	Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.