The dried leaves and tender four sided stems are used as spice for flavouring and for extraction of essential oil. Apart from flavouring numerous foods, it is used for seasoning in tomato paste products. The sweet basil oil is widely used in perfumery compounds. It has application in areas of medicine and also used as an insecticide and bactericide
| Botanical name | Family name | Commercial part |
| Ocimum basilicum L. | Lamiaceaee | Leaf |
| Indian Names | |
| Assamese | : Tulasii |
| Hindi | : Bawari bawari,Ban thulasi, Tulsi |
| Bengali | : Babui tulsi |
| Gujarati | : Sabje |
| Kannada | : Amli, Huli |
| Malayalam | : Pachcha/sivatulasi |
| Marathi | : Sabja/Tulasa |
| Oriya | : durlabha |
| Punjabi | : Imli, Tulasigidda,Tulasi |
| Sanskrit | : Barbari,Bana thulasi,Tungi |
| Tamil | :Tulasi,Tirunirrippachai |
| Telugu | : Tulsi-chettu |
| Urdu | : Imli |
Name in international languages
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