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
SODIUM	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUCCINIC-ACID	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUGAR	0	Fruit	not available	300000.0	0.76	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
SUGARS	0	Fruit	24800.0	80000.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
SUGIOL	1	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGIC-ACID	6	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Fruit	not available	50000.0	-0.43	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Essential Oil	not available	21000.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Fruit	13.0	1050.0	-0.20	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOL	18	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE	9	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE	9	Fruit	18.0	320.0	1.40	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE	9	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Fruit	not available	1.2	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMINE	0	Fruit	0.4	1.2	-1.08	Duke, 1992 *
THUJAN-4-OL	0	Essential Oil	not available	9000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THUJOPSENE	2	Wood	not available	3700.0	-1.00	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.