Juniperus communis
HRB-0164Entry “JUNIPER BUSH” in the 1850 textNot in the 1652 first edition: added by Culpeper in 1653 or by a later editor up to 1850
Old claims, quoted verbatim: not medical advice. A warning sits above the claims and never hides them; no warning does not mean safe, only that no source here has flagged the plant.
Historical correspondence. Ruled by Sun, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.
What it does, in Culpeper: Counter-poison
are excellently good in all sorts of agues;
The berries break the stone, procure appetite when it is lost, and are excellently good for all palsies, and falling-sickness.
They give safe and speedy delivery to women with child, they strengthen the brain exceedingly, help the memory, and fortify the sight by strengthening the optic nerves;
Indeed there is scarce a better remedy for wind in any part of the body, or the cholic, than the chymical oil drawn from the berries;
They are admirably good for a cough, shortness of breath, and consumption, pains in the belly, ruptures, cramps, and convulsions.
They are admirably good for a cough, shortness of breath, and consumption, pains in the belly, ruptures, cramps, and convulsions.
They are admirably good for a cough, shortness of breath, and consumption, pains in the belly, ruptures, cramps, and convulsions.
They are admirably good for a cough, shortness of breath, and consumption, pains in the belly, ruptures, cramps, and convulsions.
It is so powerful a remedy against the dropsy, that the very lye made of the ashes of the herb being drank, cures the disease.
The berries break the stone, procure appetite when it is lost, and are excellently good for all palsies, and falling-sickness.
A lye made of the ashes of the wood, and the body bathed with it, cures the itch, scabs and leprosy.
A lye made of the ashes of the wood, and the body bathed with it, cures the itch, scabs and leprosy.
They give safe and speedy delivery to women with child, they strengthen the brain exceedingly, help the memory, and fortify the sight by strengthening the optic nerves;
The berries break the stone, procure appetite when it is lost, and are excellently good for all palsies, and falling-sickness.
The berries stay all fluxes, help the hæmorrhoids or piles, and kill worms in children.
The berries are hot in the third degree, and dry but in the first, being a most admirable counter-poison, and as great a resister of the pestilence, as any growing;
They are admirably good for a cough, shortness of breath, and consumption, pains in the belly, ruptures, cramps, and convulsions.
The ashes of the wood is a speedy remedy to such as have the scurvy, to rub their gums with.
They are admirably good for a cough, shortness of breath, and consumption, pains in the belly, ruptures, cramps, and convulsions.
It provokes the terms, helps the fits of the mother, strengthens the stomach exceedingly, and expels the wind.
The berries break the stone, procure appetite when it is lost, and are excellently good for all palsies, and falling-sickness.
The berries stay all fluxes, help the hæmorrhoids or piles, and kill worms in children.
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850
Quotations are verbatim from the 1850 text, line breaks joined. Modern research and the European regulator’s verdict on each claim are on the Concordance page, kept apart from this historical record.