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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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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
NEROL 10 Fruit *
NEROL 10 Fruit Essent. Oil *
NEROLIDOL 11 Leaf *
NERYL-ACETATE 5 Fruit 6.0 60.0 -0.26 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
NIACIN 39 Fruit 4.0 12.0 -0.65 *
NONACOSAN-5-10-DIOL 0 Fruit *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Fruit Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
OLEIC-ACID 18 Plant *
OPLOPANONE 0 Fruit *
OXALIC-ACID 9 Leaf *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Leaf *
P-CYMEN-8-OL 0 Fruit 1.0 4.0 -1.00 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
P-CYMENE 16 Fruit 48.0 480.0 -0.52 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
P-CYMENE 16 Fruit Essent. Oil *
P-CYMENOL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
P-CYMOL 0 Essential Oil *
P-CYMOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
P-CYMOL 0 Plant 240.0 -0.95 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID 13 Plant 2500.0 1.00 *
P-MENTHA-1,2,4-TRIOL 0 Plant *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Nodulation-Signal 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Occuloirritant 1 *
Odontolytic 1 Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 8 Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Osteogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Osteolytic 1 *
Oviposition-Stimulant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ozone-Scavenger 1 *
P21-Inducer 1 *
P450-2B1-Inhibitor 5 *
P450-Inducer 3 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 1 *
Pancreatogenic 2 *
Percutaneostimulant 1 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery 37 Merck 11th Edition
Peristaltic 2 *
Peroxynitrite-Scavenger 1 *
Pesticide 78 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 *