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.