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Lamiaceae - syn. Ocimum sanctum; holy basil, tulasi, Indisches Basilikum

„Tulasi is cultivated for religious and medicinal purposes, and for its essential oil. It is widely known across the Indian Subcontinent as a medicinal plant and an herbal tea, commonly used in Ayurveda, and has an important role within the Vaishnavite tradition of Hinduism, in which devotees perform worship involving holy basil plants or leaves.“ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocimum_tenuiflorum

„Ocimum tenuiflorum L.f. (syn. O. sanctum L.) (Lamiaceae) is an indigenous ayurvedic medicinal plant of India and is popularly known as holy basil/sacred basil. Oils obtained by hydrodistillation from leaves, stems, inflorescence and whole herb were analyzed by GC and GC/MS and retention indices. Methyl eugenol was the major constituent of all the oils (72.5%, 75.3%, 83.7% and 65.2% in oils from whole herb, leaf, stem and inflorescence, respectively). β-Caryophyllene was the second most dominant constituent and the respective concentration in each oil (5.5%, 6.4%, 2.7% and 12.0%).“ [Volatile constituents in oil from different plant parts of methyl eugenol-rich Ocimum tenuiflorum Lf (syn. O. sanctum L.) grown in South India. Kothari, S. K., Bhattacharya, A. K., Ramesh, S., Garg, S. N., & Khanuja, S. P. S., Journal of Essential Oil Research, Vol.17 (6), 2005, 656-658]

„The essential oil compositions of cvs. ‘Green’ and ‘Purple’ of O. sanctum were almost the same, and both cultivars were dominated by eugenol (67.4% and 72.8%), β-elemene (11.0% and 10.9%), β-caryophyllene (7.3% and 8.4%) and germacrene D (2.4% and 2.2%)“ [Comparative volatile oil composition of four Ocimum species from northern India. Rajendra C. Padalia, Ram S. Verma, Natural Product Research: Formerly Natural Product Letters Vol.25 (6), 2011, 569-575]

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