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
RESIN	0	Fruit	80000.0	100000.0	0.50	Duke, 1992 *
RHODOXANTHIN	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Fruit	0.2	0.6	-0.94	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Essential Oil	not available	76000.0	-0.06	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Fruit	172.0	2700.0	0.31	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SANDARACOPIMARAL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SANDARACOPIMAROL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SANDAROPIMARIC-ACID	0	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.
SANTENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCIADOPITYSIN	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCUTELLAREIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM	60	Fruit	0.1	0.2	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
SELINA-4(14),7(11)-DIENE	0	Fruit	not available	2.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELINAN-4(14)-7(11)-DIENE	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SHIKIMIC-ACID	14	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILICON	4	Fruit	1.4	4.5	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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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.