🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile
This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Juniperus Communis. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
▲HERBAL GENERAL ACTIONS
Juni-c has notbeen proved, but sufficient is known of its action to warrant its inclusion and
to show the analogy between
its action and that of Sabina.
Hale commended it in certain coughs with scanty, loaded urine.
He said German doctors used juniper in gastric
affections, abdominal flatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind. and colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants..
CatarrhalRelating to membrane inflammation and mucusRelating to catarrh, which is inflammation of mucous membranes with increased watery discharge. inflammation of kidneys.
DropsyFluid retention and swelling (edema)An old medical term for edema, which is swelling caused by excess fluid trapped in your body's tissues. with suppression of urine.
Elderly persons with poor digestion and scanty secretion of urine.
Painful ribs and sternum from coughing attacks (Bry.).
Kidneys - NephritisInflammation of the kidneysAn inflammatory condition of the kidneys, affecting their filtering units, which can cause pain, blood in urine, or swelling..
StrangurySlow, painful, drop-by-drop urinationA painful condition characterized by the slow, spasmodic discharge of urine drop-by-drop, accompanied by a constant urge., bloody, scanty urine, violet odor (Tereb.).
Weight in kidney region.
Pyelitis.
Kidney hyperemia (Eucal.).
Severe, painful coughs.
Cough with scanty, loaded urine
▲REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
Prostatic discharge.
Nose - CoryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge..
Hay fever.
Allergies.
Violent sneezing from cedar pollen.
Comments - Hale wrote, “I have known cases of dysmenorrheaPainful menstruation with abdominal crampsPainful menstruation, typically involving abdominal cramps. and uterine hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse. cured by the common
Juniper, and I have treated some kidney and bladder difficulties with Juniper.
The popularity of pure gin in
dysmenorrhea is owing to the effects of the oil of Juniper berries which it conta ins.
“In domestic practice, an infusion of Juniper leaves and berries is used success fully in amenorrheaAbsence of menstrual periodsAn abnormal absence of menstruation. and
dysmenorrhea, as well as retention, suppression, and other urinary troubles.
“In some cases of dropsy, a tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. of the berries, or the oil of Ju niper, will act on the kidneys favorably after
the failure of other medicines.
“We ought to have provings of the common Juniper, and give it a place in our Materia MedicaEncyclopedia of homeopathic remediesA comprehensive body of collected knowledge describing the origin, preparation, and detailed symptom profiles of healing substances..
I would also
suggest that the tincture be made from equal parts by weight of the fresh berries and green leaves.
The Oil of
Juniper of commerce is made from the berries alone.
“German physicians make much use of Juniper in gastric complaints, in abdominal flatulence, colics, and even
in some hepatic affections.
I know that the 3x of Oleum juniperus is useful in certain coughs, with scanty urine,
loaded with solid matters.”
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This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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