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[[File:1024px-Basil leaves.jpg|thumb|right|Basil leaves]]
Basil leaves , also called great basil, Ocimum basilicum or Saint-Joseph's-wort, is a culinary herb of the family Lamiaceae (mints). It is also called the "king of herbs" and the "royal herb". The name "basil" comes from Greek βασιλικόν φυτόν (basilikón phutón), "royal/kingly plant". This medicinal herb can help with flatulence, lack of appetite, cuts, and scrapes.Harvest the young leaves of this annual plant as needed.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Blisters in mouths}}, {{Uses|mouth sores}}, {{Uses|bleeding piles}}, {{Uses|leucorrhoea}}, {{Uses|Mild diabetes}}, {{Uses|Cough}}, {{Uses|physical weakness}}, {{Uses|ulcer}}, {{Uses|Urinary trouble}}, {{Uses|snakebite}}, {{Uses|infection in intestine}}.
==Parts Used==
{{Parts Used|seeds}}, {{Parts Used|leaves}}.
==Chemical Composition==
Mature seeds contain alkali like abrine, precatorine, etc., abraline; toxalbumin like abrin I, II, III, etc., abrus agglutinin I, II (A. P. A Ⅰ, Ⅱ), sterols like abricin, squnalene, alcohol likeβ-amyrin, cycloartenol, 5β-cholanic acid, abrussic acid, sophoradiol, trimethyltryptophan abrusin galactose, arabinose, xylose, polysaccharide and flavonoids compounds, Seed covers contain gallic acid, abranin), delphinidin.<ref name="chemical composition"/>
==Common names==
{{Common names|kn=Gulaganji|ml=Thulasi, Sivathulasi, Krishnathulasi|sa=Gunja|ta=Gundumani, Kundumani|te=Gurivinda or Guriginja|hi=Ban tulsi, Jangli tuls|en=Basilie, Sweet Basil}}
==Habit==
{{Habit| A small wiry straggler(5m)}}
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Paripinnate|Oblong|Leaf Arrangementis Alternate-spiral}}.<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Unisexual|2-4cm long|pink||Flowering throughout the year and In terminal and/or axillary pseudoracemes}}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|oblong pod|Thinly septate, pilose, wrinkled||seeds upto 5|Fruiting throughout the year}}
===Other features===
==List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used==
* [[Vishatinduka Taila]] as ''root juice extract''
==Where to get the saplings==
==Mode of Propagation==
{{Propagation|Seeds}}.
==How to plant/cultivate==
The more common species of Aconitum are generally those cultivated in gardens, especially hybrids. They typically thrive in well-drained evenly moist garden soils like the related hellebores and delphiniums, and can grow in the shade of trees.
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
{{Commonly seen|tropical}}, {{Commonly seen|Caribbean Islands}}, {{Commonly seen|subtropical}}, {{Commonly seen|pinelands}}, {{Commonly seen|hammocks}}.
==Photo Gallery==
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[[Category:Herbs]]
