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
NEROL	10	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEROL	10	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEROLIDOL	11	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
NONACOSAN-5-10-DIOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	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.
OLEIC-ACID	18	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OPLOPANONE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID	9	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
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	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENOL	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMOL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMOL	0	Plant	not available	240.0	-0.95	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	13	Plant	not available	2500.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
P-MENTHA-1,2,4-TRIOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	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
Anticancer	11	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	2	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Anticancer (Colon)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Oral)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Pancreas)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility	1	Merck 7th Ed.
Anticarcinogenic	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticarcinomic (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticardiospasmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	7	Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticarpal-Tunnel	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.