Materia Medica
Juniperus - Communis
Juniper Berries
Juniper Berries Catarrhal inflammation of kidneys. Dropsy, with suppression of urine. Old persons, with poor digestion and scanty secretion of urine. Chronic pyelitis. An Indian Shrub, Singhee (JUSTICIA ADHATODA BASAKA) Highly efficacious medicine for acute catarrhal conditions of the respiratory tract (used in the beginning)
Urinary
Strangury; bloody, scanty urine, violet odor (Tereb). Weight in kidney region. Prostatic discharge. Renal hyperaemia (Eucalyptol).
Respiratory
Cough with scanty, loaded urine. Dry cough from sternal region all over chest. Hoarseness, larynx painful. Paroxysmal cough, with suffocative obstruction of respiration. Cough with sneezing. Severe dyspnoea with cough. Tightness across chest. Asthmatic attacks, cannot endure a close, warm room. Whooping-cough.
Head
Irritable, sensitive to external impressions; hot, full and heavy head; lachrymation, with coryza, profuse, fluent, with constant sneezing; loss of smell and taste; coryza with cough.
Throat
Dry, pain during empty swallowing, tenacious mucus. Mouth dry.
Relationships
Compare: Sabina; Juniperus Virginianus-Red Cedar--(Violent tenesmus vesical. Persistent dragging in back; hyperaemia of the kidneys; pyelitis and cystitis; dropsy of the aged with suppressed urine. Dysuria, burning, cutting pain in urethra when urinating. Constant urging apoplexy, convulsions, strangury, uterine haemorrhage). Terebinthina. Seems to come between Cepa and Euphrasia, which compare.
Dose
Best form is the infusion. One ounce to a pint of boiling water. Dose, one-half to two ounces, or tincture, one to ten drops. Third potency and higher. Severe aggravation have been noticed from lower potencies. An Indian Shrub, Singhee (JUSTICIA ADHATODA BASAKA) Highly efficacious medicine for acute catarrhal conditions of the respiratory tract (used in the beginning)