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Juniperus Communis

Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica · William Boericke

Open remedy: Juni-c.

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Juniper Berries

General

Catarrhal inflammation of kidneys. Dropsy, with suppression of urine. Old persons, with poor digestion and scanty secretion of urine. Chronic pyelitis.

Urinary

Strangury; bloody, scanty urine, violet odor. [TEREB.] Weight in kidney region. Prostatic discharge. Renal hyperaemia. [EUCALYPTOL.]

Respiratory

Cough with scanty, loaded urine.

Relationship

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, uterine haemorrhage). TEREBINTHINA.

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.

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