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eczema, the local use of the juice of the fresh inner bark has hastened the
cure.
In bowel complaints of infants and children, in the constipation of
nursing women, and in the commencing stages of diarrhea and
dysentery the syrup may be used, while the extract is the best form of the
remedy as a cathartic in intermittent fever, and whenever the remedy is
employed as a cathartic.
Juglans may be given in conjunction with berberis, phytolacca, or
podophyllin when there are disorders that are induced by occipital
headaches.
JUNIPER. Juniperus communis.
Synonym—Juniper berries.
CONSTITUENTS—
Volatile oil, resin, gum, wax, starch, sugar, salts.
PREPARATIONS—
Extractum Juniperi Fluidum. Fluid Extract of Juniper. Dose, from
one to two drams.
Oleum Juniperi. Oil of Juniper. This is a volatile oil obtained from
juniper berries by distillation, and is of a pale greenish or yellowish color,
and of a warm, terebinthinate taste. Dose, from five to twenty minims.
Oleum Cadinum-Oil of Cade. This is an empyrheumatic oil obtained
from the wood of Juniperus Oxycedrus, a shrub resembling common
juniper, by dry distillation, and is a dark-colored, thick liquid with a
tarry odor, and a burning, bitter taste. Dose, from three to five drops.
Therapy—Juniper has long been in use as a general diuretic and
soothing kidney remedy. It is indicated in feeble or aged patients with
persistent dragging or weight across the kidneys. In chronic disease it is
especially beneficial. In pyelitis, pyelonephritis and cystitis, all of a
chronic form, it is of value.
It will quickly relieve many cases of simple renal hyperemia, preventing
the development of structural change, or the advancement of nephritis.
After acute nephritis, whether from direct causes, or subsequent to
scarlet fever, diphtheria, or other severe disease, when active
inflammation has subsided, it will restore the secretory power of the
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