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
GEIJERONE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
GERANYL-ACETATE	5	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERMACRENE-D	2	Fruit	3.0	32.0	1.00	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
GINNOL	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	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.
GLUCURONIC-ACID	4	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.
GLYCOLIC-ACID	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HINOKIFLAVONE	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HUMULENE	2	Fruit	not available	102.0	-0.62	Duke, 1992 *
HUMULENE-OXIDE	0	Fruit	not available	9.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HUMULENE-OXIDE	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYPOLAETIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IMBRICATOLIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Hegnauer, R. 1962-1997. Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen, Bde 1-11. Birkhauser Verlag Basel, Boston, Berlin.
IRON	6	Fruit	5.0	15.0	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
ISOCRYPTOMERIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOCUPRESSIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	2637.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOCUPRESSINIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Hegnauer, R. 1962-1997. Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen, Bde 1-11. Birkhauser Verlag Basel, Boston, Berlin.
ISOPIMARAL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOPIMARIC-ACID	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOPIMAROL	0	Fruit	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
Antigonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	3	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigout	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihalitosic	1	American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993.
Antihangover	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihelicobacter	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antihematuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	2	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhagic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihemorrhoidal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatitic	3	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihepatoadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatocarcinogenic	1	Akao, M. and Kuroda, K. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Fumaric Acid on Hepatocarcinogenesis by Thioacetamide in Mice. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(7): 2012-2014, 1990.
Antihepatotoxic	12	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic	12	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	12	J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.