Plant Juniperus communis (Cupressaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Common Juniper; Juniper

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
ISOQUERCETIN	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITRIN	22	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITRIN	22	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JUNENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
JUNICEDRAL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JUNICEDROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
JUNIONONE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
JUNIONONE	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JUNIPERAPRENOL-14	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JUNIPERAPRENOL-15	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JUNIPERAPRENOL-16	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JUNIPERAPRENOL-17	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JUNIPERAPRENOL-18	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JUNIPERAPRENOL-19	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JUNIPERAPRENOL-20	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JUNIPEROL	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
KILOCALORIES	0	Fruit	not available	3410.0	-0.38	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
L-ASCORBIC-ACID	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
L-LIMONENE	2	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
L-MALEIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Apoptotic	11	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Artemicide	2	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Arteriodilator	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Ascaricide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Asthma-preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent	3	Merck 11th Edition
ATPase-Inhibitor	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Autotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bactericide	1	Wealth of India.
Bacteriostatic	1	Chin. J. Tuber. Respir. Dis.
Bacteristat	2	Lamikanra, A., Ogundaini, A.O., and Ogungbamila*, F.O. Antibacterial Constituents of Alchornea cordifolia Leaves. Phytotherapy Research 4(5): 198.
Barbituate-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker	4	Zhu, M., Phillipson, J. D., Greengrass, P. M., Bowery, N. E., Cai, Y. 1997. Plant Polyphenols: Biologically Active Compounds or Non-Selective Binders to Protein? Phytochemistry, 44(3): 441-447.
Beta-Blocker	2	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Bradycardiac	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bradycardic	1	Martindale's 28th
Bronchodilator	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Bronchomucolytic	1	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 200.