decoction for epilepsy, stenocordid( Angina Pectoris); leaves were shredded and rolled to smoke for bronchial Asthma( Bello-Russ. Academy of Science, 1965). Externally: A liniment of Nastoika( vodka and Jamestown weed) is applied to rheumatic and radiculitis( inflamation of the nerve root) pain( Bello-Russ. Academy of Science, 1965).
A— JIMSON WEED Datura stramoniurn, L. B— Pod( Ontario Department of Agriculture, Toronto, Canada, 1966)
Clinically: Prescribed mainly for Asthma, Angina Pectoris, Bronchitis; all possible caution should be taken when administering Datura stramonium, even by medical personnel. Industrial: Soon after introduction, distribution was felt throughout the land. The wild collection soon led to successful special cultivated plantations in South Russia, Ukranie, Don river regions( Krasnodar). Dose: To plant 1 acre, 1 – 1¼ lb. of seed are required, if planted by the“ nest” system; 5 lb. if planted in“ row” system( Atlas, Moscow, 1963). As this plant is paisonous, gloves should be worn when collecting the leaves and plant. Jamestown Weed is poisonous to horses, cattle and geese; fresh, or portions of the dry herb, is in hay, even in the minimum dose.
JUNIPER
Juniperus communis, L.( N. O.: Pinaceae)
Common Names: Juniper Bush, Juniper Berries. Features: An ornamental evergreen of the pine family with trees and shrubs of about forty species. The common Juniper( J. communis) is a smaller species, usually less than 25 ft. tall, and many of its numerous varieties are less than 10 ft. This shrub is common on dry, sterile hills from Canada south to New Jersey, west to Nebraska, and in the Rocky Mountains of New Mexico.
The leaves open in whorls of three, are glaucous and concave above, keeled underneath. Flowers in May, with fleshy fruit of dark-purplish colour, ripening in the second year after the flower. Every part of the shrub is medicinal, and the French peasantry prepare a sort of tar which they call“ huile-decade” from the interior reddish wood of the trunk and branches. This is our popular Juniper tar. Medicinal Part: The ripe dry berries. Solvents: Boiling water, alcohol. Bodily Influence: Diuretic, Stimulant, Carminative. Uses: If we may speak of the conditions of internal accumulative filth we would suggest Juniper berries as an agent used for fumigating the system to ward off contagion. S. Kneip, of“ My Water Cure”( 1897), has this to say about the berries:“ Those who are nursing patients with serious illness as