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Chemical constituents and pharmacological effects of Ocimumbasilicum- A review
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ALI ESMAIL AL-SNAFI
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The phytochemical analysis of Ocimumbasilicumshowed that it contained terpenoids, alkaloids, phenolics, flavonoids, tannins, saponin, reducing sugars, cardiac glycosides, steroids, glycosides. It also contained nutritive elements: carbohydrate, oils, protein, and many vitamins and minerals. The pharmacological investigations revealed that Ocimumbasilicum possessed antioxidant, antimicrobial, antiparasitic, antiallergic, immunological, anticancer, antidiabetic, protective, cardiovascular, reproductive, antiulcerogenic, neural, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antimutagenic and dermatological effects. In the current review, Web Science, PubMed, Scopus and Science Direct, were searched to investigatethe chemical constituents and pharmacological effects of Ocimumbasilicum.
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chemical constituents, pharmacology, therapeutic, Ocimumbasilicum
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2021.13.02.388
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