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
CHOLESTEROL	1	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.
CHROMIUM	24	Fruit	1.0	3.2	-0.06	Duke, 1992 *
CINEOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ACID	18	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-1-ETHOXY-P-MENTH-2-ENE	0	Fruit	3.0	30.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CIS-3-ETHOXY-P-MENTH-1-ENE	0	Fruit	1.0	3.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CIS-4-ETHOXY-THUJANE	0	Fruit	3.0	30.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CIS-ACONITIC-ACID	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-CALAMANENE	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-COMMUNAL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-COMMUNIC-ACID	2	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.
CIS-COMMUNOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID	23	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLAL	20	Fruit	not available	160.0	1.13	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLAL	20	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLOL	15	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Fruit	4.0	12.3	0.95	Duke, 1992 *
COMMUNIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
COSMOSIIN	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUPARENE	1	Wood	not available	300.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Vulnerary	7	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	10	Duke, 1992 *