Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Juniperus communis (Cupressaceae)

Common Names
Common Juniper, Juniper
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

Select a Results View:

View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
Download these results as:
CSV
XLSX
List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Fruit 19.0 192.0 -0.50 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-KETO-GLUTARIC-ACID 0 Leaf *
ALPHA-MUUROLENE 0 Fruit 54.0 542.0 -0.13 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-MUUROLENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Fruit 26.0 300.0 -0.43 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Essential Oil 336000.0 2.40 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Fruit 530.0 9200.0 1.68 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Fruit Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Leaf Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-SELINENE 3 Fruit 21.0 210.0 -0.46 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Fruit 16.0 640.0 3.12 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Essential Oil 2000.0 -0.68 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Fruit 3.0 40.0 -0.38 *
ALPHA-TERPINYL-ACETATE 0 Fruit *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Fruit 24.0 240.0 -0.37 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ALUMINUM 5 Fruit 19.0 61.0 -0.21 *
AMENTOFLAVONE 18 Leaf *
AMENTOFLAVONE 18 Plant Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
AMENTOFLAVONE-DIMETHYL-ETHER 0 Leaf *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
Download these results as:
CSV
XLSX
List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiadenovirus 1 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiaflatoxin 2 (View) *
AntiAGE 2 (View) Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant 14 (View) *
Antiaging 6 (View) *
Antiakathisic 1 (View) Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 5 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiallergenic 2 (View) Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antiallergic 10 (View) J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialopecic 4 (View) Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antialzheimeran 5 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antialzheimeran? 1 (View) Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiamblyopic 1 (View) *
Antianaphylactic 6 (View) *
Antiandrogenic 4 (View) Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic 2 (View) Martindale's 29th
Antianginal 2 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiangiogenic 6 (View) *
Antianorectic 2 (View) Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antianorexic 1 (View) Martindale's 29th