From all these names the word was derived gin, a perfumed spirit with berries of Junípero.
INTRODUCTION: A tradition tries that the fruits of the juniper must be always taken in uneven number. Thus, the average dozen really consists of 7 units, and the dozen, of 11, since the 13 are avoided to consider themselves of bad augury.
Small branch of juniper with its false green berries; to the right, detail of a feminine plant with its mature fruits, Calls nebrinas. Stop power to be collected, the nebrinas must be totally black. As much in infusion as chewed they present/display an ample phantom of therapeutic properties.
The fruits of the juniper have fascinated from the antiquity to herbolarios and alchemists, because crude, boiled or dried they have served stops to cure diverse ailments and, in the last centuries, stop to elaborate one of the more well-known spirits, the gin.
CHARACTERISTICS: It is a small tree that, frequently, presents/displays arbustivo aspect of between one and two meters of height. It has leaves in needle form, grouped of three in three, of intense green color, with a white line that crosses the inferior face. There are masculine plants and feminine plants; these last ones are those that interest more, by the properties of the fruits, denominated nebrinas, which take three years in maturing: they are small false berries of a centimeter of diameter, green in the beginning, but that is darkened happening through violet and arriving at the black with bluish brightness in the mature fruit. Of bittersweet, resinous flavor, its aroma is similar to the one of the cinnamon.
LOCATION: It lives in the tempered regions and you cold of the North hemisphere, as much in Europe and Asia as in North America. In the Pyrenees, 2,500 ms of altitude are until a, in forests of you have, oaks or pines.
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: The essence of the fruit is curls in terpenos, like the pineno or the juneno. It also has juniperina, a substance astringent.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: A1 juniper has attributed sinfín to him of virtues: he is antigotoso, carminativo. sudorífico, diurético, emenagogo, protector against arteriosclerosis.
HARVESTING: The nebrinas must be mature and, since three years in maturing take, we will distinguish the mature fruit of more than two years by its color, that is to be totally black. The best time is the autumn, when and has disappeared the flower and begin to appear the young fruits.
USES And APPLICATIONS: It can be used in infusion: seven fresh nebrinas by cup, sweetened with honey. Nevertheless, in order to take advantage of tote mind the properties the juniper, we can take the nebrinas as if d treated caramels, but remember that always they have to be consumed in uneven number (5 or 7 after the lunch and the supper). By or side, the juniper has a great one matter in the licorera industry, because the nebrina constitutes the raw material stops the elaboration of the gin.
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