Preparation
highCulpeper places juniper berries in a compound decoction with roots, seeds, and aromatics that are infused, boiled down, strained, and sweetened.
Found in the Hermetikon archive
Juniper
Juniperus communis
Juniper appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.
- Risk
- moderate
- Books
- 40
- Contexts
- 6
- Mentions
- 249
Archive Profile
Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.
Herb identity
- Common name
- juniper
- Latin name
- Juniperus communis(candidate)
- Identity note
- Historical sources may discuss berries, wood, smoke, or fumigation.
Safety
moderate
Kidney irritation, pregnancy caution, and essential-oil risk are relevant.
Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.
- EMA HMPC: Kidney irritation, pregnancy caution, and essential-oil risk are relevant.
Aliases
juniperjuniper berriesJuniperus communis
Juniper in Historical Sources
Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.
Hermetikon's curated reading of Juniper (Juniperus communis) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 1 preparation or ritual-use entry. The strongest recurring contexts are preparations, ritual uses, and identity. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.
Identity
highHill identifies juniper as a common heath shrub with reddish bark, tough branches, narrow prickly leaves, yellowish flowers, and black ripe berries.
Ritual
highFrazer records Persian household fumigation with juniper during a festival of the dead, so the evidence is ritual smoke and ancestor hospitality.
The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1911
§ 6. Readjustment of Egyptian Festivals.
Preparations and ritual uses
fumigation
highFrazer records juniper burned as household fumigation during a Persian festival of the dead, so the ritual use is smoke offered for ancestral spirits.
The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1911
§ 6. Readjustment of Egyptian Festivals.
Juniper Archive Contexts
Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.
Medicine
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Liber 777.
Matched as juniper; high confidence.
Astrology
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Key of Solomon.
Matched as juniper; high confidence.
Folk magic
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: The Golden Bough.
Matched as juniper; high confidence.
Preparation
4 passages across 4 books; strongest source: Culpeper's Complete Herbal.
Matched as juniper; high confidence.
Ritual
4 passages across 4 books; strongest source: The Golden Bough.
Matched as juniper; high confidence.
Safety
2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted.
Matched as juniper; high confidence.
Juniper Cited Excerpts
Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper
1653
"...f Fennel, Smallage, Parsley, Sparagus, Bruscus, Saxifrage, Elecampane, Cypress, Madder, Orris, Peony, of each an ounce, Juniper Berries, the seeds of Lovage, Parsley, Smallage, Annis, Nigella, Carpobalsamum or Cubebs, Costus, Cassia Lignea, Cardamoms, Calamus Aromaticus, the roots of Asarabacca, Pellitory of Spain, Valerian, of each half an ounce, being cleansed, cut, and bruised, let them be infused twenty-four hours in fourteen pounds of clear water, and boiled till half be consumed, being taken off from the fire, and rubbed between your hands whilst it is wa..."
Chapter 57Open in Reader
Preparationalias: juniperhigh confidence
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter
1854
"...es per day, or whenever cough is severe. Where it is desired to obtain a diuretic effect, \ ounce, each, of the oi's of juniper and of stillingia may be added to the above syrup. SYRUPUS HYPOPHOSPHITUM (U. S. P.)— SYRUP OF HYPOPHOSPHITES. Sy.\0.n"YM : Sj/rupu-i culcii hm^jihogphitk com pus it us. Preparation. — "Calcium hypophosphite, forty-five grammes (45 Gm.) [1 oz. av..2")7 gr-.]; potassium hypophos]>hite, fifteen grammes (15 Gm.) [232 grs.]; sodium hypophospliite, fifteen grammes (15 Gm.) [232 grs.] ; diluted hypopho8phorus acid, two grammes (2 Ctui.) [31 ..."
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Preparationalias: juniperhigh confidence
The Family Herbal
John Hill
1755
"...s also by urine. An ointment is to be made, by boiling them in hog's lard, which is excellent for sore nipples. ### The JUNIPER SHRUB. *Juniperus.* A COMMON shrub on our heaths. It grows to no great height in England, but in some other parts of Europe, rises to a considerably large tree. The bark is of a reddish brown. The branches are tough. The leaves are longish, very narrow, and prickly at the ends. The flowers are of a yellowish colour, but small and inconsiderable. The berries are large, and when ripe blackish: they are of a strong, but not disagreeable s..."
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Preparationalias: juniperhigh confidence
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer
1906
"...ar they had to sleep on a bed of fir-boughs, on which sticks of rose-bushes were laid; many wore twigs of rose-bush and juniper in a piece of buckskin on their persons. The first four days they might not touch their food, but ate with sharp-pointed sticks and spat out the first four mouthfuls of each meal, and the first four of water, into the fire. A widower might not fish at another man's fishing-place or with another man's net; if he did, it would make the place and the net useless for the season. If he transplanted a trout into another lake, before releasin..."
§ 6. Hunters and Fishers tabooed.Open in Reader
Preparationalias: juniperhigh confidence
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer
1911
"...at they go to the dishes laid out for them, imbibe their strength and suck their taste. They fumigate their houses with juniper, that the dead may enjoy its smell. The spirits of the pious men dwell among their families, children, and relations, and occupy themselves with their affairs, although invisible to them.†He adds that there was a controversy among the Persians as to the date of this festival of the dead, some maintaining that the five days during which it lasted were the last five days of the month Aban, whereas others held that they were the five s..."
§ 6. Readjustment of Egyptian Festivals.Open in Reader
Ritualalias: juniperhigh confidence
Books Mentioning Juniper
Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper | 1653
juniperjuniper berries
66 mentionscited
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854
juniperjuniper berries
37 mentionscited
Balder the Beautiful, Volume I
James George Frazer | 1913
juniper
19 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1913
juniper
11 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1913
juniperjuniper berries
10 mentions
Witchcraft & Second Sight
John Gregorson Campbell | 1902
juniper
10 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1890
juniperjuniper berries
9 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1913
juniper
8 mentions
Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus
Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim (Paracelsus) | 1493
juniper
6 mentions
Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton | 1621
juniperjuniper berries
6 mentions
Evil Eye in the Western Highlands
John Gregorson Campbell | 1902
juniper
6 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1906
juniper
5 mentionscited
Pow-Wows
John George Hohman | 1820
juniperjuniper berries
5 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1908
juniper
5 mentions
The Family Herbal
John Hill | 1755
juniperjuniper berries
4 mentionscited
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1890
juniperjuniper berries
4 mentions
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted
Gustavus Hindman Miller | 1901
juniper
3 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1911
juniper
2 mentionscited
Key of Solomon
King Solomon | 1400
juniper
2 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1918
juniper
2 mentions
The Hermetic Museum
A. E. Waite (Translator/Editor) | 1678
juniper
2 mentions
Argonautica
Apollonius Rhodius | 250
juniper
2 mentions
Strange Pages from Family Papers
Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer | 1887
juniper
2 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1926
juniper
2 mentions
Adventures of a Modern Occultist
Oliver Bland | 1920
juniperjuniper berries
2 mentions
Myth, Ritual and Religion Vol. 2
Andrew Lang | 1887
juniper
2 mentions
Ritual and Belief
A.W. Buckland | 1891
juniper
2 mentions
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
E. Cobham Brewer | 1870
juniper
2 mentions
Demonologia
J. S. Forsyth | 1827
juniper
2 mentions
Liber 777
Aleister Crowley | 1909
juniper
1 mention
Fourth Book & Magical Treatises
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (attributed) | 1655
juniper
1 mention
Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy
Pseudo-Agrippa | 1565
juniper
1 mention
The Magus (Vol 2)
Francis Barrett | 1801
juniper
1 mention
The Authentic Red Dragon and Black Hen
Anonymous | 1800
juniper
1 mention
Book of Black Magic
Arthur Edward Waite | 1898
juniper
1 mention
Bygone Beliefs
H. Stanley Redgrove | 1920
juniper
1 mention
The Triumphant Chariot of Antimony
Basil Valentine | 1604
juniper
1 mention
Illustration of the Occult Sciences
Ebenezer Sibly | 1784
juniper
1 mention
The Blood Covenant
H. Clay Trumbull | 1885
juniper
1 mention
The Complete Book of Fortune
Anonymous | 1930
juniper
1 mention