Scientific Name arándano negro vaccinium uliginosum BLACK BILBERRY
The black bilberry is a small matita with the tended branches and roots every so often of which new short small branches leave every year. The leaves are small, of oval figure, with the wide part in their superior end, enterísimas, glaucas in reverso and with small veins to way of redecillas. They are maintained by means of a short tip. The flowers are born on the branches of the previous year and they are grouped in hanging racimitos. One grows up in slopes of high mountains, mainly in rich in silica and the lime poor women.
This grass blooms of May in ahead, maturing its fruits in August or September. Of the harvesting with medicinal aims it interests the fruit, which usually takes shelter at the end of September, when he is already well mature. This fruit is a cleared berry, of bluish black color and farináceo flavor, slightly sweet. The done analyses reveal that the fruit contains discharges amounts of inverted sugar along with small amounts of diverse acids, like málico acid and the tánico.
As far as its possible therapeutic properties, in almost all writings mention of its poisonous effects without hardly commenting nothing becomes about its possible clinical applications. The fact that it does not receive any popular name makes think that the field people do not pay great attention to this species, without a doubt because of generation in generation they have been transmitted the disagreeable effects of the fruits when they are taken directly from the plant. Thus, one comments that eaten in great amount they can get to produce headache and vomits. As it plants medicinal is a species astringent, antiseptic and with antidiarreicas properties. The fruit in fresh state - so and as we have seen before usually it is not consumed, but with them wines and licores of high graduation are prepared that are used for certain diseases in which it is necessary to obtain to an effect astringent. In any case always he is better to go to a specialist, who will be the one that diagnoses and deals with our ailments the best possible way.
Maceration: Macerating the fruits in a good wine one obtains a dye used in catarrhal diseases of stomach and internal.
Fresh juice:. It is a typical preparation of the Nordic countries. To the fresh juice of the fruit they add to enough sugar, obtaining a wine to him of properties similar to those of the bilberry.
Astringent. Digestive. Antidiarreico.
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