Juniper

     Juniper is a shrub with a miraculous power which is always green, having strong regenerative powers which help it to grow on mountains, being one of the most easy to associate with other medicinal plants.

     Juniper contain C and B vitamins, iron and chromium, which gave these specific therapeutic properties.

     Juniper is one of the most powerful natural diuretic, antiseptic and urinary and cleansing remedies with great effects on gout, urinary tract infection, yeast infection, obesity, kidney stones, and fluid retention problems, pulmonary disease like acute and chronic bronchitis, pulmonary catarrh, cold, cough, lung infection, flow of the bronchial secretions, pulmonary tuberculosis and in gastrointestinal disease, hepatitis, pancreatitis, liver cirrhosis, colitis, stomach cramps, bloating, diarrhea, dysentery, vomiting, anorexia and hemorrhoids.

     Juniper is successfully used in combination with fruit horsetail and corn silk in renal and genital diseases like chronic cystitis, dropsy, renal edema and leucorrhea.

     As juice, decoction, poultice, juniper is used in neuroses, allergies, migraines, mental depression, mental anguish, anxiety problems, hypertension, atherosclerosis, lumbago, osteoarthritis and gout, diabetes, obesity, cellulite, hormonal effects, including water retention in the tissues, cancerous diseases.

     In combination with horsetail, tails cherries, corn silk, birch leaves, parsley root and stinging nettle is used in kidney, bladder and genitals, kidney stones, kidney swelling feet, nephritic colic, cystitis, kidney infections, gonorrhea, leucorrhoea, menstrual irregularities, cirrhosis, chronic or acute hepatitis, colitis, flatulence, dyspepsia, the fermentation and excitation of gastrointestinal juices, strengthening digestive system, increased appetite.

     Juniper used in combination with stinging nettle and dandelion has an increased action in beauty treatments by removing toxins and cleaning the blood from the body.

     Used as essential oil juniper has a disinfectant and diuretic effect in renal tract, digestive and respiratory diseases, particularly gallstones urinary cystitis, dyspepsia, jaundice, fermentation, flatulence, anorexia and bronchitis.