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

Common Names

Kenyan Tree Basil

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
BETA-BISABOLENE	6	Shoot	not available	205.0	-0.06	J. Nat. Prod. 44: 308.
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Shoot	not available	110.0	-0.19	J. Nat. Prod. 44: 308.
BETA-CUBEBENE	0	Shoot	not available	205.0	0.17	J. Nat. Prod. 44: 308.
BETA-PINENE	13	Shoot	not available	12.0	-0.12	J. Nat. Prod. 44: 308.
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	J. Nat. Prod. 44: 308.
CIS-BETA-OCIMENE	0	Shoot	not available	540.0	2.96	J. Nat. Prod. 44: 308.
EO	0	Shoot	not available	4000.0	-0.58	J. Nat. Prod. 44: 308.
EUGENOL	76	Shoot	110.0	2860.0	1.82	J. Nat. Prod. 44: 308.
LINALOL	0	Shoot	not available	20.0	-0.22	J. Nat. Prod. 44: 308.
LINALYL-ACETATE	7	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	J. Nat. Prod. 44: 308.
METHYL-EUGENOL	20	Shoot	not available	2240.0	0.08	J. Nat. Prod. 44: 308.
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	J. Nat. Prod. 44: 308.
PHYTOL	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	J. Nat. Prod. 44: 308.
STIGMASTEROL	12	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	J. Nat. Prod. 44: 308.

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Abortifacient	2	Duke, 1992 *
Acaricide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Allergenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Androgenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anesthetic	3	Phytotherapy Research, 4: 93.
Angiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiaggregant	1	Phytotherapy Research, 4: 93.
Antiallergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiandrogenic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiarachidonate	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarrhythmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	4	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic	1	Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.