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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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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
2-ETHYL-FURAN 0 Shoot Essent. Oil 100.0 *
3-METHYL-BUTAN-1-AL 0 Shoot Essent. Oil 100.0 *
3-OCTANONE 0 Leaf Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
3-OCTANONE 0 Plant *
5,10(15)-CADINEN-4-OL 0 Plant 1.0 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.
ACETIC-ACID 16 Essential Oil *
AESCULETIN 32 Leaf *
AESCULIN 33 Leaf *
AESCULOSIDE 3 Flower Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
ALANINE 3 Leaf 7470.0 -1.19 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALPHA-AMORPHENE 0 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-AMORPHENE 0 Plant *
ALPHA-BERGAMOTENE 0 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-BERGAMOTENE 0 Plant 75.0 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-BISABOLENE 0 Plant 90.0 1.41 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-BISABOLENE 0 Shoot Essent. Oil 36000.0 *
ALPHA-BISABOLOL 20 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-BISABOLOL 20 Plant 90.0 -0.07 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-BULNESENE 0 Plant 6.5 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-BULNESENE 0 Shoot Essent. Oil 2600.0 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiflu 5 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone 1 *
Antigastric 1 Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic 3 Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic 1 *
Antigenotoxic 3 *
Antigingivitic 3 *
Antiglaucomic 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antigliomic 1 *
Antiglossitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglutamaergic 1 *
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic 3 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigranular 1 *
AntiGTF 1 *
Antihalitosic 3 American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993.
Antihangover 4 *
Antiheartburn 1 *
Antihelicobacter 3 *