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
RESIN	0	Fruit	80000.0	100000.0	0.50	Duke, 1992 *
RHODOXANTHIN	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Fruit	0.2	0.6	-0.94	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Essential Oil	not available	76000.0	-0.06	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Fruit	172.0	2700.0	0.31	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SANDARACOPIMARAL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SANDARACOPIMAROL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SANDAROPIMARIC-ACID	0	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.
SANTENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCIADOPITYSIN	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCUTELLAREIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM	60	Fruit	0.1	0.2	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
SELINA-4(14),7(11)-DIENE	0	Fruit	not available	2.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELINAN-4(14)-7(11)-DIENE	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SHIKIMIC-ACID	14	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILICON	4	Fruit	1.4	4.5	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Musculotropic	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Mutagenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Mutagenic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mycobactericide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	9	Martindale's 29th
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	13	Shoyakugaku Zasshi, 44: 183.
Neoplastic	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NEP-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nephrotoxic	2	Martindale's 29th
Neurodepressant	1	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.
Neuropathogenic	1	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.
Neuroprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotransmitter	1	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	2	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Nociceptive	1	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.