Here is "The Plant Detective" radio show's short script describing some medicinal uses of juniper in a nutshell. <a href="http://www.floradelaterre.com/Montana">www.floradelaterre.com/Montana</a> Public Radio. (Note: The script is written from the perspective of Flora Delaterre, a fictional narrator.)<br>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times;"><<I’m skiing in Finland--past a juniper tree. For ages, people in
northlands around the globe’ve used juniper medicinally--the needles and bluish
berries. Northern native Americans treated themselves and their horses with
juniper tea and smoke, and sometimes chewed the cones, for cold, flu,
digestion, and childbirth. The berries’re disinfectant and the leaves,
astringent. Today, juniper’s mainly a warming anti-inflammatory for painful
joints and muscles. It aids urinary tract issues too. Europeans made a
juniper-based diuretic, “ginevre”—shortened later to “gin.” The Finns love
juniper beer. But if you’re pregnant or kidney-compromised, avoid juniper. The
tree’s sacred in many cultures, maybe because it lives long, stays green, and
smells so good. </span>
>><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 7:36 PM, MoonBranch Botanicals <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:moonbranch@earthlink.net">moonbranch@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">Without seeing the plant it's hard to tell, but the "flat" leaves and "spiked" berries make me wonder. You may have a Chamaecyparis and not a Juniperus. Upon closer inspection, juniper leaves are actually a bit rounded with berries rounder than spiked, generally.<br>
<br>These two images from the USDA PLANTS database show two juniperus species that are fairly illustrative of the genus:<br><br><br></font></font></font><a href="http://plants.usda.gov/java/largeImage?imageID=juoc_003_ahp.jpg" target="_blank">
<img src="" alt="Photo of Juniperus occidentalis Hook." border="0" height="220" width="330"></a><img src="" alt="Photo of Juniperus californica Carrière" border="0" height="220" width="330"><br><br><br><br>
<font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">Chamaecyparis generally look more like this:<br></font></font></font><a href="http://plants.usda.gov/java/largeImage?imageID=chla_013_avp.tif" target="_blank">
<img src="" style="width: 220px; min-height: 329px;" alt="Photo of Chamaecyparis lawsoniana (A. Murray) Parl." border="0"></a><br>Without seeing the plant or knowing where you live that's about the best I can do. Hope that helps!<br>
-Robin<br><br><br><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px; border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255);"><div class="im">
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<br>Sent: Aug 21, 2011 3:35 PM
<br>To: Robert Layton Beyfuss <u></u>, rabiah al nur <u></u>, medicinalplant workinggroup <u></u>
<br>Subject: Re: [MPWG] need info on juniper berries large spiked ones one on flat cedar looking leaves
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<a title="rlb14@cornell.edu" href="mailto:rlb14@cornell.edu" target="_blank">Robert Layton
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<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>To:</b> <a title="rabiah_sol@hotmail.com" href="mailto:rabiah_sol@hotmail.com" target="_blank">rabiah al nur</a> ; <a title="mpwg@lists.plantconservation.org" href="mailto:mpwg@lists.plantconservation.org" target="_blank">medicinalplant workinggroup</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">Many
juniper berries are blue grey in color, the only medicinal use I know for them
is to add their distinctive flavor and fragrance to Gin!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:mpwg-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org" target="_blank">mpwg-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>rabiah
al nur<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 21, 2011 12:24 PM<br><b>To:</b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hi My neighbor has
a tree/large shrub with grayish-blue spiked berries he says is a juniper and i
would like to know if it is a medicine plant or if it can be used for
anything. I don't se the birds eating them and all found is a picture of them
with no info. <br>Thanks for your help<br>rabiah<br><br>Rabiah Al Nur Spring
of Light <a href="mailto:rabiah_sol@hotmail.com" target="_blank">rabiah_sol@hotmail.com</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
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