The oldest African cultures knew and chewed the tail nut (the fruit of the tail) to stimulate muscles and the nervous system, in order to surpass the exhaustion. The tail carries out in Africa a papal similar to the one of the cocaine in the $andes.
It receives the name of "tail" all a series of trees of the sort Tail whose seed, denominated tail nut, is used by the pharmaceutical industry and, from does not do too many years, by would feed it, for the refrescantes drink elaboration. It turns out peculiar to as much think that to old Greece as to the Arab towns, these geographically very next to the African regions where the tail grows, passed a tree with extraordinary medicinal properties inadvertent. In Europe it was known in century xvi, but only at the end of the xix they began to take advantage of its qualities.
CHARACTERISTICS: Tree of 15 to 20 ms of height, similar to the chestnut tree. It does not produce fruit until the 15 years, and only from the 50 it begins his Maxima productivity (about 9 kilos of annual nuts). The fruit contains the seeds, of great dimensions (about 4 cm. in length by 2 of width), each one of them formed by two or four fleshy grains that are, in fact, the tail nuts.
Location: It lives exclusively in tropical Africa, the western regions. The trees of the tail are very demanding as far as climate talks about, because they need warm and humid atmosphere, but alternating rains with the droughts. They require a deep, argillaceous and rich ground in humus. The species more taken advantage of for the harvesting nuts is nitida Tail, with many varieties. Another one of the species more taken advantage of by the man is acuminata C..
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: The tail grains are appreciated by their content in caffein and teobromina; nevertheless, its content in tannins, mineral proteins does not have to not deign and salts.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: The tail stimulates the nervous system, increases the tension arterial, is exciting cerebral (comfortable aid in the cases of excess of intellectual work). Also she is diurética.
HARVESTING: The fruits take shelter before they mature completely and they are opened one by one to extract the seeds. The process of transport until the destiny place is very complicated, because the seeds must stay fresh and humid. In any case, also they are transported after to be dried, for which it is required to install an industrial plant next to the plantation.
USES And APPLICATIONS: The tail production is absorbed to a large extent by the pharmaceutical industry. In house wine of tail "maintaining in maceration can be prepared", in a liter of red wine hard, 50 grams of tail nut during nine days at least. To filter and to take two or three soperas spoonfuls to the day like treatment
or one wins for a sporadic use like stimulating tonic. The tail nuts, have a high caffein content and teobromina, in addition to mineral tannins, proteins and salts. One of the most common uses of the tail is in the industry would feed, for the refrescantes drink preparation. It mitigates the physical and intellectual fatigue thanks to his estimulador power of muscles and the nervous system.
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