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
CAMPESTEROL	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CAMPHENE	9	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Fruit	1.0	100.0	-0.31	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOLENE-ALDEHYDE	0	Essential Oil	not available	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOLENIC-ACETATE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CAMPHOLENIC-ALDEHYDE	0	Fruit	1.0	7.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CAMPHOR	41	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR	41	Fruit	1.0	7.0	-0.89	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CAR-3-ENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAR-3-ENE	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	226300.0	730000.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Fruit	12.0	120.0	-0.39	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE	8	Fruit	not available	15.0	-0.90	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE	8	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CATECHOL-TANNINS	0	Fruit	30000.0	50000.0	not available	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
CEDRENE	1	Leaf	12000.0	36000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CEDROL	3	Leaf	450.0	2100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CEDROL	3	Wood	not available	200.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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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.