Juniper Essential oil

Benefits:

• Juniper essential oil is a good disinfectant therefore it efficiently protects wounds from becoming infected or developing tetanus.
• The oil improves blood circulation and removes toxins—such as uric acid from the body, as a result, it helps to fight conditions like rheumatism, arthritis, gout, and renal calculi.
• It helps to cure cramps and spasms, thus relaxes cramps–muscular, intestinal, and respiratory or any other area.
• The oil tightens loose muscles and helps to make it firm, fit, and remain youthful.
• It can initiate blood vessels to contract; as a result, it reduces the chances of hemorrhage.
• Being a diuretic—promoting urination–in nature, it is beneficial in reducing the suffering of accumulation of water in the body and swelling.
• The sudorific substance in the oil promotes sweating or perspiration. Occasional perspiration helps to remove toxins, excess salt, and water through sweat, which further cleans skin pores, opens sweat and sebum glands, thus prevents acne.

Medicinal use:

Juniper Essential Oil is mostly used for its properties as an antiseptic, sudorific, ant-rheumatic, depurative, anti-spasmodic, stimulating, stomachic, astringent, carminative, diuretic, rubefacient, vulnerary and tonic substance. Juniper fruits are stomachic, diuretic, emmenagogue, carminative, stimulant and used in cutaneous disease. Wood yields cedar oil and is used to cure chronic disorders of the urogenital tract. A poultice made up of needles is applied to wounds; berries are used in aphonia, laryngitis, pulmonary catarrh, and asthma.

Culinary use:

Its astringent blue-black seed cones (juniper berries) are too bitter to eat raw and are usually sold dried and used to flavor meats, sauces, and stuffings. Since juniper berries have a strong taste, they should be used sparingly. They are generally used to enhance meat with a strong flavor, such as a game, including game birds, or tongue. The cones are also used to flavor certain beers and gin.