“…Ocimum gratissimum L. (clove basil), a dicotyledonous shrub plant, which belongs to the Lamiaceae family, have been used in applications in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industries. This plant has several scientifically proven therapeutic abilities, such as a hypoglycaemic agent (Casanova, Gu, Costa, & Jeppesen, 2017); antioxidant (Hzounda et al, 2016); antifungal (Nguefack et al, 2009); antibacterial (Bonou et al, 2016); and in treating hepatopathies (Chiu et al, 2014), among others. It is also popularly used in herbal medicine for treating several diseases, such as upper respiratory tract infection, fever, piles, cough, diarrhoea and pneumonia (Pandey, 2017).…”