Juniper

Juniper

A Compendium of Domestic Medicine, 1865

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Savory classifies juniper as a Diuretic (Remedies Which Cause an Increased Secretion of Urine) (413/392)

Juniper berries are diuretic, but can also be prepared as stomachic, carminatives, and diaphoretics. Linnaeus stated that Swedes would make a beer from the berries that was found to be effective against scorbutic cases. The barriers can also be used to treat “colicky complaints,” or to assist older individuals urinate. (111/90)

Remedies Containing or to be used with Juniper

• Elaterium (87/66): treatment for dropsy administered in juniper tea
• Juniper Berries (110-11/89-90): see def
• Kreosote, or Creasote (112/91): compound spirit of juniper can be combined along with other ingredients to administer creosote
• Nitre (125/104): compound spirit of juniper is included in a “Diuretic Mixture”
• Oil of Juniper (129/108): stimulant, carminative, and stomachic. “Oil of Juniper gives the flavour to what is termed in this country as gin, and which was originally an imitation of Hollands, and was also rectified from juniper; but the greater part of the gin now used is made from Scotch and Irish whisky rectified on turpentine.”
• Tincture of Buchu Leaves (176/155): oil of juniper included in “Buchu Mixture,” used to treat urinary irritation, gravel, spasmodic strictures, gleet, fluor albus, &c.

Diseases Treated with Juniper

General Diseases

• Headache (257/236): spirit of juniper combined with an infusion of buchu and soap-lees has been recorded to sometimes provide relief.

Medical Articles Containing Juniper

• Infusion of Juniper (310/289): juniper berries

Prescriptions Containing Juniper

Diuretics

• Diuretic Mixture (Another) (346/235): bruised juniper berries, and spirit of juniper
• Diuretic Pill (Another) (347/326): oil of juniper

Imported from

• Prussia
• Germany
• Holland
• France
• Gibraltar
• Italy
• Ireland
• Channel Island