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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
ISOQUERCETIN 3 Fruit *
ISOQUERCITRIN 22 Fruit *
ISOQUERCITRIN 22 Leaf *
JUNENE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
JUNICEDRAL 0 Fruit *
JUNICEDROL 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
JUNIONONE 0 Fruit Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
JUNIONONE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
JUNIPERAPRENOL-14 0 Leaf *
JUNIPERAPRENOL-15 0 Leaf *
JUNIPERAPRENOL-16 0 Leaf *
JUNIPERAPRENOL-17 0 Leaf *
JUNIPERAPRENOL-18 0 Leaf *
JUNIPERAPRENOL-19 0 Leaf *
JUNIPERAPRENOL-20 0 Leaf *
JUNIPEROL 0 Wood J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
KILOCALORIES 0 Fruit 3410.0 -0.38 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
L-ASCORBIC-ACID 1 Fruit Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
L-LIMONENE 2 Bark Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
L-MALEIC-ACID 0 Fruit Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Insectiphile 5 Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
Insulin-Sparing 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinogenic 6 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-1-alpha-Inhibitor 1 *
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 3 *
Interleukin-6-mRNA-Inhibitor 1 *
Irritant 23 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Juvabional 4 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratitigenic 1 *
Larvicide 5 *
Larvistat 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 8 *
Laxative? 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leptingenic 1 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
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipolytic 1 *
Lipoxygenase-1-Inhibitor 1 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 10 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.