Chemical Compositions ofOcimum sanctumShyama and0cimum sanctumRama Oils from the Plains of Northern India

Abstract

Two cultivars of Ocimum sanctum Shyama and Ocimum sanctum Rama on hydrodistillation resulted in the isolation of 0.41% & 0.43% of oils (w/v) on fresh weight basis respectively. GC and GC-MS analysis of Ocimum sanctum Shyama resulted in the identification of 34 constituents comprising 98.3% of the oil, of which the major ones were methyl eugenol (67.8%) and (E)caryophyllene (17.1%). On the other hand GC and GC-MS analysis of Ocimum sanctum Rama resulted in the identification of 39 constituents comprising 98% of the oil, where eugenol (46.2%), (E)caryophyllene (27.6%) and β-elemene (16.3%) were the major constituents of the oils,

Aromatic Profiles of Essential Oils from Five Commonly Used Thai Basils

“…Methyl eugenol (3) is the principal composition in O. sanctrm var . Shyama [ 43 ], O. uttricifolium [ 44 ], O. campechianum Mill. [ 45 ] and some varieties of O. basilicum (i.e., var.…”

Comparison on Phytochemical and Physico-Chemical Parameters of Ocimum sanctum Linn Grown in Different Locations of Sri Lanka

“…Therefore, MT 2 collected from SP was rich in methyl eugenol and βelemene. Similar study was conducted to compare the two monotypes (O. sanctum Shyama and O. sanctum Rama) of O. sanctum grown in India and results revealed that percentages of methyl eugenol and ecaryophyllene were different among the two monotypes [18].…”

Chemical composition of the essential oil of Ocimum tenuiflorum L. (Krishna Tulsi) from North West Karnataka, India

“…The compound methyl eugenol has been reported in varying amounts along with diverse chemotypes from different regions (Bhattacharya et al, 1996;Kothari et al, 2005;Joshi, 2013a;Awasthi & Dixit, 2007;Gbolade & Lockwood, 2008). It is interesting to note that chemotypes containing other compounds have also been reported (Khan et al, 2010;Kicel et al, 2005;Machado et al, 1999;Brophy et al, 1993;Pino et al, 1998).…”

“…Anticancer (Kathiresan, Guanasekan, Rammurthy, & Govidswami, 1999), radioprotective, anticarcinogenic (Devi, 2001), antioxidant (Devi, 2001;Joshi, 2013a), chemopreventive (Prashar, Kumar, Banerjee, & Rao, 1994;Karthikeyan, Ravichadran, & Govindasamy, 1999), immunotherapeutic (Mukherjee, Das, & Ram, 2005), antimicrobial (Singh, Malhotra, & Majumdar, 2005;Joshi, 2013a), anti-inflammatory (Godhwani, Godhwani, & Vyas, 1987;Singh & Majumdar, 1997), analgesic, antipyretic (Godhwani et al, 1987), antispermatogenic (Seth, Johri, & Sundaram, 1981) and antistress (Bhargava & Singh, 1981) activities of this plant have also been reported. The essential oils of O. tenuiflorum have been reported to possess methyl eugenol (Joshi, 2013a), methyl eugenol, β-caryophyllene (Bhattacharya, Kaul, & Rajeswara Rao, 1996;Kothari, Bhattacharya, Ramesh, Garg, & Khanuja, 2005), methyl eugenol, (E)-caryophyllene, eugenol and, β-elemene (Awasthi & Dixit, 2007), methyl chavicol, and linalool (Khan et al, 2010) from India; β-bisabolene, 1,8-cineole and methyl chavicol (Kicel, Kurowska, & Kalemba, 2005) from Poland; methyl eugenol and isocaryophyllene (Gbolade & Lockwood, 2008) from Nigeria; eugenol, β-caryophyllene and caryophyllene oxide (Machado, Silva, Matos, Craveiro, & Alencar, 1999) from Northeastern Brazil; eugenol, β-elemene and β-caryophyllene (Pino, Rosado, Rodriguez, & Garcia, 1998) from Cuba; methyl chavicol, camphor and β-caryophyllene (Brophy, Goldsack, & Clarkson, 1993) from Australia. The aim of the present study was to investigate the essential oil composition of O. tenuiflorum (Krishna Tulsi) growing in North West Karnataka, India, using gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analyses.…”