JUNIPERUS SABINA. 
Medical Properties and Uses. Savine is a powerful ind 
active stimulant, and has been iong celebrated as one of the nost 
efficacious emmenagogucs in the Materia Medica; it also possesses 
diaphoretic and anthelmintic properties. When employed as an 
emmenagogue it requires considerable caution, for when givei in 
small doses it often fails to produce the desired effect ; and in laiger 
doses its heating and stimulating qualities often prove injuri»us, 
particularly if much fever or plethora be present,* unless its us( be 
preceded by repeated bleedings, which depletion should invariabh be 
resorted to in plethoric habits. f In those cases of amenorrhoei. in 
which the circulation is languid, and unattended by fever, it appears 
to be best suited, and often proves efficacious. It has been givei as 
a vermifuge with some success. It is now, however, seldom em- 
ployed internally but as an emmenagogue ; externally it is appliel as 
a local stimulant, in the form of powder, to indolent and foul ulcers, 
syphilitic warts, and carious bones; or in the form of an ointment, 
to keep open issues and blisters. The expressed juice diluted, and 
also an infusiou of the leaves, have been employed as a wash in 
cutaneous diseases, viz, tinea capitis, scabies, &c. but of its effitacy 
in these diseases, from our own practice, we cannot say much. 
The leaves may be given in powder, in doses of from five to ten 
or fifteen grains, three times a day ; and the essential oil, from one 
to two drops night and morning, either alone, or in combination with 
gentian, myrrh, steel, &c. 
Off. The Leaves. 
Off. Pp. Ceratum Sabinae, L. 
Extiactum Sabinae, D. 
Oleum volatile Juniperi Sabinae, E. D. 
* Dr. Culien observes, that "savine is a very acrid and heating substance ; and I have 
been often, upon account of these qualities, prevented from employing it in the quantitj 
perhaps necessary to render it emmenagogue. I must own, however, that it shews a 
more powerful determination to the uterus than any other plant I have employed ; but I 
have been frequently disappointed in this, and its heating qualities always require a 
great deal of caution." — Mat. Med, vol. ii. p. 366. 
+ Home's Clinical Exper. p. 387. 
