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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Juniperus communis (Cupressaceae)

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

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
GEIJERONE 0 Fruit Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
GERANYL-ACETATE 5 Fruit *
GERMACRENE-D 2 Fruit 3.0 32.0 1.00 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
GINNOL 3 Fruit *
GLUCOSE 7 Fruit Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
GLUCURONIC-ACID 4 Fruit Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
GLYCOLIC-ACID 4 Fruit *
HINOKIFLAVONE 7 Leaf *
HUMULENE 2 Fruit 102.0 -0.62 *
HUMULENE-OXIDE 0 Fruit 9.0 *
HUMULENE-OXIDE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
HYPOLAETIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit *
IMBRICATOLIC-ACID 0 Plant Hegnauer, R. 1962-1997. Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen, Bde 1-11. Birkhauser Verlag Basel, Boston, Berlin.
IRON 6 Fruit 5.0 15.0 -0.47 *
ISOCRYPTOMERIN 0 Leaf *
ISOCUPRESSIC-ACID 0 Leaf 2637.5 *
ISOCUPRESSINIC-ACID 0 Plant Hegnauer, R. 1962-1997. Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen, Bde 1-11. Birkhauser Verlag Basel, Boston, Berlin.
ISOPIMARAL 0 Fruit *
ISOPIMARIC-ACID 2 Fruit *
ISOPIMAROL 0 Fruit *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Fibrinolytic 1 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FLavor 37 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Floral-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
FPTase-Inhibitor 1 *
Fumigant 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Fungicide 27 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 3 *
Fungitoxic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
GABA-nergic 1 *
Gastroprotective 4 *
Gastrosedative 1 Merck 11th Edition
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 2 *
Glutathione-Depleting 1 *
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide 1 *
Gram(-)icide 1 *
GST-Inducer 1 *
Hemolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.