by U Hla Maw, B.Sc., Research Officer, Pharmaceuticals Section, Applied Chemistry, Research Department, Union of Burma Applied Research Institute, 1959.
Copied from the original (typewriter copy) by U Kyaw Tun (UKT) in 1985 August. HTML version by UKT, and staff of TIL for staff and students of TIL. Edited by UKT for incorporating into Myanmar Medicinal Plant Database. Not for sale.
74• Ocimum sanctum
Synonyms: The sacred Basil.
Vernacular Name: Kala-pin-sein.
Botanical origin: Ocimum sanctum, Linn.
Family: Labiatae.
Part Used: Dried Leaves
Distribution: Cultivated in gardens.
Plant: A much branched, erect, herbaceous annual, 30-60cm, high, stems and branches usually purplish, sub quadrangular, sometimes woody below, softly hairy, flowers in racemes, nutlets subglobose or broadly oblong, slightly compressed, nearly smooth, pale red-brown.
Constituents: Leaves yield 0.7% essential oil containing 71.3% eugenol, 3.2% carvacrol, 20.4% methyl eugenol and 1.7% caryophyllrne. (31)
Uses: Expectorant, juice used in catarrh and bronchitis, infusion of the leaves as a stomachic in gastric disorders, carminative, refrigerant, febrifuge.
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