Botanical Name: Ocimum kilimandscharicum Guerke.

Family: Labiatae; Lamiaceae

 

 Introduction:

This plant have the smell of camphor , when leaves are crushed. 

 

 

Names in different Indian languages

 

English

Camphor Basil

Hindi

Karpura Tulasi

Kannada

Karpura Tulasi

Malayalam

Karpura Tulasi

Sanskrit

Karpura Tulasi

Tamil

Karpura Tulasi

Telugu

Karpura Tulasi

Unani

 

Folk

 

 

 

 

 

Synonyms

 

 Ocimum camphora Guerke

 

Classification according to Charaka, Susrutha & Vagbhata

 

Charaka

 

Susrutha

 

Vagbhata

 

 

          
        

  

 

Varieties & adulterants - (CV – controversy, AD – adulterants) 

 

 

 


Morphology

 

Branched, aromatic under shrub 30-50 cm high, sometimes  woody, hairy.

Leaves—simple, opposite, ovate-oblong, - entire or subserrate. Petioles slender hairy 

Flowers— very small, pale white, borne in terminal and axillary racemes.

Fruits— subglobose or broadly oblong nutlets.

Flowers and fruits almost throughout the year (mainly during September-February).


Distribution & Habitat

Cultivated

 

 

Chemical constituents:

 camphor, pinene, limonene, terpinolene, myrcene, beta-phellandrene, linalool, camphene, p-cymene, borneol and alpha-selinene

 

Karma -

spasmolytic, antibacterial,aromatic,antiviral

 

Indication:

Cough, ulcer, anorexia, infections

 

Part used:

 Whole plant  

 

Dosage: 

Leaf juice 10-15 ml

Powder 2-4 g

Decoction 50-100 ml

 

 

Therapeutic Uses:

  1. Leaf juice useful in cough

 

Descriptions on  Ayurveda books / Nighandu:

  1

 

 

 

 

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