TABLE 3.

Summarized clinical effects of O. basilicum on respiratory diseases.

Part of plant	Disease model	Brief results	Ref.
Leaf	Aspergillosis	Very strong antifungal susceptibility versus the hyphae growth and spore germination of A. versicolor and A. flavus	Bahkali et al. (2015)
Essential oil	Aspergillosis	Strong antifungal activity versus several aflatoxigenic fungi	(A. K. Singh et al., 2011)
Seed	Lung tuberculosis	Antimycobacterial susceptibility versus M. tuberculosis and M. bovis strains	Gemechu et al. (2013)
Aerial parts	Lung tuberculosis	Antimycobacterial susceptibility versus M. tuberculosis	Siddiqui et al. (2012)
Oil essence	Lung infection	Obstruction of arachidonic acid metabolism, and cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase paths as well	Yamasaki et al. (1998)