Sabina tree

Highly poisonous creeping shrub with a growth height of 1 to 3 m with a gnarled, sloping trunk and bluish leaves, greenish on the underside, which smell unpleasant when rubbed, and whitish flowers. The seeds grow in blue-black, pea-sized pseudo-berries (berry cones). The shoot tips of the shrub are used phytotherapeutically. Flowering time: April to May; fruit ripening: September to December.

Phytotherapeutically obsolete today due to toxicity!

Historically, the needles were handed down as an abortive - also described for inflammation and carbuncles, genital warts, later also for asthma, hearing loss and tenesmus.

essential sade tree oil, sabinene: 35 % sabinyl acetate, unesterified sabinol, thujol. Ester, α-pinene, camphene, cadinene, junipene, borneol, isoborneol, terpineol, juniperol, podophyllotoxin.

Side effects: Irritation of the gastric mucosa, causes hematuria, menorrhagia - therefore also used for abortion.

Strong internal and external irritant: External: erysipelas-like inflammation Internal: gastritis, hematuria, menorrhagia, deep unconsciousness, exitus lethalis due to central respiratory paralysis after 10 hours to several days!

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2. https://www.krautundrueben.de/wacholder-oder-sadebaum
3. https://baumfreunde.org/FinBa/juniperus-sabina