Juniper Berry
Juniper increases the appetite, aids digestion, and increases the flow of urine (its major use). It is a stimulating diuretic, so it is especially beneficial in eliminating passive congestion of the kidneys resulting from heart problems, and for removing waste products from the bloodstream. Juniper is a great healer to the kidneys, urinary passages, bladder. It is a counter-poison and a strengthener of the brain, memory, and optic nerve.
An Evergreen tree or shrub. The hollow, needle-like leaves are 3-sided, whitened above and in whorls of 3. The berry-like cones ripen, in their 2nd or 3rd year to blue-black and covered with a whitish powder. They contain 3 seeds. Found throughout the U.S. in dry woods, sterile hills.
Use crushed, ripe berries for seasoning veal, roast of lamb or for flavoring gin. It yields a brown dye. Is a diuretic, carminative, and stimulant. It helps in gas, cramps, convulsions, , sciatica, edema, nerves, parasites, kidneys (not when inflamed), ruptures and coughs. The antiseptic, diuretic, and detoxifying oil is used to, acne, eczema, cellulite, and rheumatism. Steep 1 teaspoon of the crushed berries in 1/2 cup water for 15 minutes. Take 1 tablespoon, 3 times a day, or 10-30 drops of the tincture. Spray the room, used by the ill with infectious disease, with a strong solution of the needles. It is also used to destroy fungi.
Manufactured by Best Botanicals.
