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Common Names
Agbo; Shrubby Basil
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CARYOPHYLLENE | 31 | Plant | 5.0 | 125.0 | -0.41 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| CARYOPHYLLENE | 31 | Shoot | not available | 1155.0 | 0.10 | Vostrowsky, O., Garbe, W., Bestmann, H.J. and Maia, J.G.S. 1990. Essential Oil of Alfavaca, Ocimum gratissimum, from Brazilian Amazon. Zeitschr. Naturforschung 45(C): 1073-6. |
| CIS-OCIMENE | 3 | Plant | 0.0 | 12.0 | -0.47 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| CITRAL | 53 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Tramil |
| CLOVENE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| COPAENE | 1 | Plant | 1.0 | 65.0 | 0.41 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| DELTA-3-CARENE | 8 | Plant | 10.0 | 245.0 | 0.30 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| DELTA-ELEMENE | 0 | Shoot | not available | 36.0 | -0.24 | Vostrowsky, O., Garbe, W., Bestmann, H.J. and Maia, J.G.S. 1990. Essential Oil of Alfavaca, Ocimum gratissimum, from Brazilian Amazon. Zeitschr. Naturforschung 45(C): 1073-6. |
| EO | 0 | Flower | 13400.0 | 16700.0 | 0.13 | Charles, D.J. and Simon, J.E. 1992. A New Geraniol Chemotype of Ocimum gratissimum L. J. Ess. Oil Res. 4: 231-234. |
| EO | 0 | Leaf | 12000.0 | 14700.0 | 0.28 | Charles, D.J. and Simon, J.E. 1992. A New Geraniol Chemotype of Ocimum gratissimum L. J. Ess. Oil Res. 4: 231-234. |
| EO | 0 | Plant | 1000.0 | 6000.0 | -0.28 | Duke, 1992 * |
| EO | 0 | Seed | not available | 2700.0 | -0.52 | ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes. |
| EO | 0 | Shoot | not available | 21000.0 | 0.99 | Vostrowsky, O., Garbe, W., Bestmann, H.J. and Maia, J.G.S. 1990. Essential Oil of Alfavaca, Ocimum gratissimum, from Brazilian Amazon. Zeitschr. Naturforschung 45(C): 1073-6. |
| EO | 0 | Stem | not available | 1400.0 | -0.42 | Charles, D.J. and Simon, J.E. 1992. A New Geraniol Chemotype of Ocimum gratissimum L. J. Ess. Oil Res. 4: 231-234. |
| ESTRAGOLE | 12 | Shoot | not available | 0.1 | -0.98 | Vostrowsky, O., Garbe, W., Bestmann, H.J. and Maia, J.G.S. 1990. Essential Oil of Alfavaca, Ocimum gratissimum, from Brazilian Amazon. Zeitschr. Naturforschung 45(C): 1073-6. |
| ETHYL-CINNAMATE | 2 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| EUGENOL | 76 | Plant | 0.0 | 5340.0 | 2.29 | Duke, 1992 * |
| EUGENOL | 76 | Seed | not available | 1670.0 | -0.46 | ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes. |
| EUGENOL | 76 | Shoot | not available | 4045.0 | 2.78 | Vostrowsky, O., Garbe, W., Bestmann, H.J. and Maia, J.G.S. 1990. Essential Oil of Alfavaca, Ocimum gratissimum, from Brazilian Amazon. Zeitschr. Naturforschung 45(C): 1073-6. |
| FORMIC-ACID | 13 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antimalarial | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimelanomic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimetastatic (Stomach) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimitotic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antimutagenic | 5 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235. |
| Antineuralgic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antineuritic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antinitrosaminic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antinitrosating | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antinociceptive | 2 | Rao, V.S.N., Menezes, A.M.S., Viana, G.S.B. 1990. Effect of myrcene on nociception in mice. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 877-878, 1990. |
| Antiobesity | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antionychyotic | 1 | Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp. |
| Antiophidic | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363. |
| Antiotitic | 3 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antioxidant | 11 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Antioxidant (LDL) | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antipeptic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiperiodontic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antipharyngitic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiplaque | 3 | Osawa, K., Matsumoto, T., Maruyama, T., Takiguchi, T., Okuda, K., and Takazoe, I., Studies of the antibacterial activity of plant extracts and their constituents against periodontopathic bacteria, Bull Tokyo Dent. Coll., 31 (1), 1990, 17-21 |