The common juniper is mentioned in the first European herbal, De Materia Medica, by a first-century Greek physician named Dioscorides.
Go bonala melemo e e dirilweng ka dimela e e dirisiwang kwa dinageng tsa bophirima e simolotswe ke mokwadi wa mo lekgolong la ntlha la dingwaga yo e neng e le ngaka ya Mogerika e e bidiwang Dioscorides yo o kwadileng buka ya De Materia Medica.