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Ocimum campechianum

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 28 constituent measurements for Ocimum campechianum. This page reports what those source records contain and how to reach them. It carries no effect estimate, no dose and no recommendation.

Accepted name in source: Ocimum campechianum Mill.

28Constituent measurements

0Safety records

8Cited sources

0Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Ocimum micranthum Willd.

Synonyms are carried from the source compendium. A species may be traded and studied under more than one name, which is exactly how a safety record gets lost.

Regulatory presence

No Health Canada licensed natural health product in the snapshot names this species as a medicinal ingredient under this exact binomial. Absence here means absence from this one register under this one name, not absence from trade, and not a safety verdict.

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Recorded constituents

What analytical work has found in this species, at which plant part and preparation. A measured constituent is a fact about material, not about effect.

Substance	Plant part	Preparation	Concentration	Analytical method	Source
Alkaloids	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	Resolve DOI
Carvone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	16.1 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Elemicin	Flower	Essential oil	32.9 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Eugenol	Flower	Essential oil	14 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Fenchone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	2.1 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Methyleugenol	Flower	Essential oil	6.2 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Naphthalene derivatives	Leaves	Essential oil	5.8 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 19.7 Percent	GC-FID-MS	No resolvable identifier
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 0.9 Percent	GC-FID-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alpha-selinene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 4 Percent	GC-FID-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alpha-selinene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 0.2 Percent	GC-FID-MS	No resolvable identifier
Beta-selinene	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 2.8 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Beta-selinene	Leaves	Essential oil	≥ 1.6 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Beta-selinene	Leaves	Essential oil	3.2 Percent	GC-ITMS	No resolvable identifier
Beta-selinene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 7 Percent	GC-FID-MS	No resolvable identifier
Beta-selinene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 0.5 Percent	GC-FID-MS	No resolvable identifier
Elemicin	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 65.9 Percent	GC-FID-MS	No resolvable identifier
Elemicin	Leaves	Essential oil	16.09 Percent	GC-ITMS	No resolvable identifier
Elemicin	Leaves	Essential oil	21.6 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Estragole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	12.33 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Eugenol	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 97 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Eugenol	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 60.6 Percent	GC-FID-MS	No resolvable identifier
Eugenol	Leaves	Essential oil	41.05 Percent	GC-ITMS	No resolvable identifier
Eugenol	Leaves	Essential oil	≥ 84 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Methyleugenol	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 69.5 Percent	GC-FID-MS	No resolvable identifier
Methyleugenol	Leaves	Essential oil	1.31 Percent	GC-ITMS	No resolvable identifier
Sesquiterpene lactones type eudesmanolide	Leaves	Essential oil	≥ 5.6 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Sesquiterpene lactones type eudesmanolide	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 7.1 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier

Cited sources

The literature the compendium cites for this species. Metatron Health has no relationship with these authors or journals and earns nothing from citing them.

Silva, MGDV., Matos, FJA., Machado, MIL., Silva, FDO. Essential oil composition of the leaves of Ocimum micranthum Willd.. Journal of essential oil research, 2004, vol. 16, no. 3, p. 189-190.
Zoghbi, Maria das Gracas B., Oliveira, Jorge., Andrade, Eloisa Helena A., Trigo, Jose Roberto., Fonseca, Roberta Carolina M., Rocha, Antonio Elielson S. Variation in volatiles of Ocimum campechianum Mill. and Ocimum gratissimum L. cultivated in the North of Brazil . Journal of essential oil bearing plants, 2007, vol. 10, no. 3, p. 229-240.
Mota, M. S. C. S., Silva, R. S., Silva, G. A., Picanco, M. C., Mesquita, A. L. M., Pereira, R. C. A. Potential of allelochemicals from basil (Ocimum micranthum Willd) to control whitefly (Aleurodicus cocois (Curtis, 1846)) in cashew nut crop (Anacardium occidentale L.) . Allelopathy journal, 2017, vol. 40, no. 2, p. 197-210.
Coe, F.G., Parikh, D.M., Johnson, C.A. Alkaloid presence and brine shrimp (Artemia salina) bioassay of medicinal species of eastern Nicaragua. Pharmaceutical Biology, 2010, vol. 48, no. 4, p. 439-445. DOI
Rosas, JF., Zoghbi, MDB., Andrade, EHA., van den Berg, ME. Chemical composition of a methyl-(E)-cinnamate Ocimum micranthum Willd. from the Amazon . Flavour and fragrance journal, 2005, vol. 20, no. 2, p. 161-163. DOI
Silva, M.G.D.V., Craveiro, A.A., Machado, M.I.L., Alencar, J.W., Matos, F.J.A., Aur�lio, F.K.F. Essential oils from leaves and inflorescences of ocimum micranthum willd. from northeastern Brazil. Journal of essential oil research, 1998, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 77-78. DOI
Vina, Amparo., Murillo, Elizabeth. Essential oil composition from twelve varieties of basil (Ocimum spp) grown in Colombia. Journal of the brazilian chemical society, 2003, vol. 14, no. 5, p. 744-749.
Pino Benitez, Nayive., Melendez Leon, Erika M., Stashenko, Elena E. Eugenol and Methyl Eugenol Chemotypes of Essential Oil of Species Ocimum gratissimum L. and Ocimum campechianum Mill. from Colombia . Journal of chromatographic science, 2009, vol. 47, no. 9, p. 800-803.

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