Juniper is a plant that has a pleasant odor and is famous for its unique healing properties. Most often, juniper berries are used for medicinal purposes. Fruits themselves are inedible, but in combination with other components, berries of some species of juniper can be taken inside. In addition, there are many other ways to use juniper berries.
What are the benefits of juniper berries?
In the composition of berries - a huge amount of useful substances: resins, essential oils, organic acids. All of them favorably affect the body:
- Tincture of juniper fruit is a wonderful antiseptic. It effectively removes inflammation.
- Essential oils made from juniper berries can be used as diuretics. They have choleretic effect, and therefore they are often used to treat the liver and kidneys.
- Juniper broth is recommended for drinking with bronchitis and pneumonia. The drug effectively liquefies and displays phlegm, and accordingly, can cure an unpleasant dry cough.
- A pleasant aroma relaxes and soothes. Oil from juniper berries can be used in aromatic lamps. And a few drops of tincture will turn the ordinary bath in a real relaxing spa procedure.
- The oil of juniper cones heals gout and rheumatism . For this, it is enough simply to rub it into a problematic place in small quantities.
- The lotions treat damaged skin areas. Juniper promotes the healing of ulcers and wounds of any origin.
- Tincture on juniper berries will help cause delayed periods. But because the drug helps to reduce the uterus, it can not be taken during pregnancy - the threat of a miscarriage is too great.
Quite often, funds from juniper berries are used as painkillers, to strengthen and maintain immunity. The most real gourmets can try to cook gin on juniper cones. To taste this drink is almost no different from the original.
Methods of treatment with juniper berries
Berries of juniper are freely sold in pharmacies. But if you want and if possible, the fruits can be collected and dried by yourself. Those who are attracted to the latter option, I would like to warn that there are poisonous berries of juniper. A dangerous variety is Cossack. The fruits of this plant are dark brown. Therefore, it is best to collect berries in a checked place or in a company with a specialist.
You can use junipers in different ways:
- Red juniper berries can be chewed to improve the blood condition. True, you need to do this only with the permission of a specialist.
- To get rid of the pain in the joints and muscles, you can take a bath with a decoction of cones. For one bath is enough about two hundred grams of berries boiled in two liters of water.
- The patient's ear is treated with tampons dipped in a juniper tincture.
- Juniper tincture helps to get rid of bronchitis. Drink it is recommended three times a day for fifteen drops.
- Grinded and alcohol-infused berries are used to treat herpes . A few drops should be lubricated with a problematic place at the first suspicion of activation of the virus.
Juniper can cure even stomach diseases. Prepare the medicine simply:
- One hundred grams of dried juniper berries are filled with water (four hundred milliliters will be enough) and boiled.
- When the berries soften, add honey, or better - sugar syrup.
Take the medicine three times a day, a teaspoonful.