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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
FAT 0 Fruit 17360.0 56000.0 -0.21 *
FAT 0 Seed 539000.0 1.44 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FERRUGINOL 4 Wood 10.0 *
FERULIC-ACID 61 Leaf *
FIBER 15 Fruit 120000.0 -0.20 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
FIBER(CRUDE) 0 Fruit 120000.0 -0.27 *
FIBER(DIETARY) 0 Fruit 320000.0 -0.97 *
FORMIC-ACID 13 Fruit 1550.0 5000.0 1.00 *
FRUCTOSE 8 Fruit Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
FUMARIC-ACID 7 Fruit 1550.0 5000.0 -0.60 *
FUMARIC-ACID 7 Leaf *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Leaf *
GALLO-TANNIN 2 Fruit Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
GAMMA-CADINENE 0 Fruit 16.0 164.0 1.83 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
GAMMA-ELEMENE 0 Fruit 160.0 1.41 *
GAMMA-ELEMENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
GAMMA-MUUROLENE 0 Fruit 128.0 -1.00 *
GAMMA-MUUROLENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Fruit 19.0 600.0 -0.54 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Leaf Essent. Oil *
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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 *