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Product Description
Blue Juniper berries (Galbulae Juniperi, Fructus Juniperi - orig. Juniperus communis L.)

Oleaginous fruits, which grow on the juniper trees for 2 years. During the first year the fruits/globules grow up until they reach their normal size (5 to 9 mm), but retaining their green colour. During the second year, the fruits start to ripe, gradually changing their green colour to brownish and then nice deep dark blue colour. The fruits become oily with waxy coating and get their typical juniperic flavour, with pleasant astringent taste.

Product Feature
The ripen fruits/globules of the juniper tree concentrate in themselves vitamins, about 2% essential oil, 30% invert sugar, 10% oleoresins, flavonoide glycosides, tannins, wax, pectins, phenolic acids - malic, acetic, formic, etc.

Product Specification/Models
The juniper fruits are wrongly called fruits. In fact, they are the female flowers/cones - galbulaes of the juniper tree, but because of their resemblance to small fruits, people use to call them fruits.

 
The juniper fruits have a very large implementation:

1) As herb:
In human medicine, they are used as diuretic, spasmolic, sedative remedy at chronic inflammation of the kidneys and uretic channels, chronic reumatism, black liver and skin diseases, neurosis, etc.

2) As cosmetic means - in the perfumery & cosmetic industry:
The fruits are distilled to receive Juniper essential oil and hydrosol.
Especially the Bulgarian Juniper oil is one of the most qualitative juniper Essential Oils in the world, due to its rich content, pleasant and typical flavour, which comes from the most favourable climatic conditions in Bulgaria. Therefore it is used in the fine perfumery and medicinal cosmetics.