Extracted from the evergreen shrub, this essential oil, juniper berry, has a very distinct aroma. It's woody, it's spicy, it's clean, it's sweet, and the aroma of it is very calming and very grounding when you diffuse it or just simply put it in your hands, rub together, and take a deep breath in. The side effects are amazing.
The side effects?
It's positive side effects.
Alpha-Pinene is the major molecule in this oil, so alpha-Pinene obviously is incredibly emotionally uplifting. It's a joyful molecule. It's also a balancing and grounding molecule. So think alpha-Pinene when you go for a walk outside in the woods, you're breathing in alpha-Pinene because alpha-Pinene is the molecule that the trees and the bushes and the flowers, that all of those plants give off all day long. So that's what you breathe in.
Sabinene is the other primary molecule of juniper berry, and Sabinene is responsible for the healthy immune response and for the healthy inflammatory response when we use an oil like juniper berry. The other things that juniper berry does inside of our body, which is really powerful, it robustly affects the signaling pathways involved in wound healing, cellular regeneration, like I said, immune response, a healthy inflammatory response.
Juniper berry is a very global effect essential oil on our body, and really specifically what we have been using it for for years is to support the kidneys and our urinary tract. So we have a really good friend that has had now two kidney replacements, and she is now healthier than she's been in probably 20 years, and through the process of the second kidney replacement, while she was waiting for a donor, she really used a lot of juniper berry to keep her kidneys and to keep her urinary tract as healthy as possible while she was waiting for that kidney.
It's so wonderful, and the best way to use it is internally. So you're gonna take three drops right in a veggie cap, and take it every single day to support your urinary tract and your proper kidney function. Do you wanna know a super cool thing about juniper berry?
It's energy healing when you sleep at night. So juniper berry has an emotional connection to people who fear the dark side of themselves, the unknown of themselves. And nightmares are usually coincide with people who fear the unknown, so if you use juniper berry at nighttime, diffuse it by your bedside. Put it on before you go to bed if you suffer from nightmares.
What it does is it helps with proper healing of energies, protecting healing of your energy when you're sleeping, having those nightmares. And it also helps you realize those deep, dark, hidden spots of yourself, it lets you open it up and let it go. It's amazing.
That's awesome. We also use and recommend juniper berry for people who suffer from like post-traumatic stress, whether it's emotional or from an event or both.
Most of the time it's a combination of both. But we love recommending juniper berry, and people do really, really well using it three drops, three times a day, either topical or internally, for those types of emotional hurdles and challenges that we need to overcome.
Juniper Berry