CALABAZÓN (cerezoprunus avium)

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	CALABAZÓN
	*cerezoprunus avium*

Name
CALABAZÓN

Scientific Name
cerezoprunus avium

CALABAZÓN

Other Names:

Calabazón, Guerecílla, Zorrero Sour cherry

Habitat: common in the tempered zones of both hemispheres.

Description: tree of the family of the Rosaceous ones, beautiful bearing and crust brown, smooth when young, and later rough and cracked. Their leaves oval and are indented, the white flowers, and the fruits that can vary from red the clear one to the dark dwelled one.

Used parts: the fruits and their pedúnculos (tails).

Properties and indications: the wild cherries, and also the cultivated ones, contain one balanced combination of active principles, that make of this fruit an excellent food-medicine:

Glúcidos: easily assimilable sugars (even by the diabetics) in form of fruitful levulosa or, whose amount oscillates from 3% to 15%.

Vitamins: carotenes (provitamin A) in appreciable amount, thus like small amounts of vitamins del group B and vitamin C.

Minerals: iron, calcium, phosphorus, sulfur, sodium, and mainly potassium, as well as an ample range of oligoelementos (zinc, receives, manganese, cobalt, etc.), that confer to the cherries remineralizantes and tonificantes properties of the organism.

Natural acids: málico, succínico and citrus, on whose percentage its more or less acid flavor depends, and that acts like stimulating of the digestive glands and purifying of the blood.

Soluble vegetal fiber: pectina in small amount, that confers a smooth laxative effect to them.

Flavonoides, that makes them slightly diuréticas.

Salicílico acid in small proportion (about 2 mg by kilo of cherries), that confers certain effect to them antinflamatorio and antiarthritic.

The pedúnculos of the fruits (cherry tails) contain salts mineral (mainly of potassium) and flavonoides, principles to which must their smooth diurética action, safe and free of indirect effect. They constitute one of the best known vegetal diuréticos. They will benefit specially from this medicinal fruit:

Obese and the full ones, to those who it will make become thin without risk of undernourishment or mineral imbalance. In addition, the cherries have the property to attenuate the hunger sensation.

The arthritics and gotosos, to those who he will make descend the levels of úrico acid in blood and will alleviate his pains you will articulate.

Who suffer inflammation of the urinary routes (pielonefritis or cystitis), had to chronic infection or to litiasis (urinary calculations).

Those that suffer of chronic constipation due to laziness or intestinal atony, since they have a smooth laxative and tonificante effect of all the digestive conduit.

Use: the cure of cherries is made consuming like only food half kilo of mature fruits, 4 or 5 daily times, during 1-2 days. If the cherries are wild, it is recommended to take a smaller amount, because they contain a greater proportion of active principles. Those that they suffer of gastric weakness or slow digestions, will have to take the boiled cherries. It is recommended to put in between the takings of fruits, several cups of tisane of pedúnculos (tails).

In decocción of pedúnculos, doing to boil 50 grams of cherry tails (fresh or dry) during 5 minutes. Several cups to the day are taken, either of isolated form or in combination with one cures of cherries.

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