Juniperus Communis

(Juniper.)

DKSCitrpTiOK This is a small evergreen shnih, never attaining the height of a tree, with many very close branches, the extremities of which are smooth and angular. Juniper is common to Europe and this country, growing in dry woods and hills, and flowering in May. Tlie fl'uit, or berries, are tlie officinal parts ; those which are imported from tlie southern parts of Europe are tlie best.

The American berries possess less virtue, and are seldom employed. Juniper berries are about the size of currnnts, of a purplish-black color, shrunken, marked at the top with a tri-radiate groove, and at the base with bractoal scales ; they contain three seeds.

Their odor is peculiar, terebinth in ate, and aromatic, and their ta^te tere-

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binfhinate and aweet.iBli, succeeded by some bitterness. These qualities are due to an essential oil, wliicb may be obtaiQed by distillation with water. They yield their properties to hot water or alcohol.

Ofpicihai. PKEPARATiONe.— (1) Ticcture of Iho berries; (2) dilutions from the Oil of Juniper. {Infusion of the berries.) [If the Jjcnipeifig Virginiana is used, the tincture must be made from the leaves and terminal twigs, as it is prepared from the Juniperus Sahina^

AUALOotJBS.— -4p^i Bofotma, Oannadis, Gapaiva, Oubebs, Eqmsetum, Galium, 8<U?ina, Tereiinih.

Great flow of limpid tirine of low speeifle gravity. ° Scanty, dark, scalding urine, with pain in the bladder and

" Gonorrhrea, gleet, leucorrhcea, cyatorrhcea. ° Dropsy, not caused by organic disease; (a palliative in incur able dropsy.)

{See Therapealics. Vol. II.)