LIMONCILLO (grosellero espinosoribes uva crispa)

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	LIMONCILLO
	*grosellero espinosoribes uva crispa*

Name
LIMONCILLO

Scientific Name
grosellero espinosoribes uva crispa

LIMONCILLO

Other Names:

Agraz, Arganzón, Red Cambronera, Cambronera Mata, Chincarros, Escambrones, Limoncillo, Grape Crespa, Grape Prick

Very it is appreciated in the countries of the north of Europe, and cultivated varieties have been obtained that produce great and flavorful fruits. With them jellies and confituras are elaborated that in addition, have medicinal properties.

Habitat: spread by forests and fences of all Europe, mainly in the countries of the center and the Scandinavians.

Description: thorny subshrub of the family of the Saxifragáces that reaches up to 1.5 meters of height. The flowers are of red or greenish color. It gives fruit in berry of made oval form and reddish or greenish color, surrounded by pelillos and that contain several seeds

Used parts: the fruits (berries).

Properties and indications: the fruits contain organic acids, digestive, remineralizantes, diuréticas and laxative sugars, vitamins To, B and Cs, and salts mineral, that confer aperitive properties to them.

By their diurético effect, as much fresh as in juice or confitura, the fruits of the thorny grosellero are very appropriate to make the calls you cure depurativas of spring (0.8, 8), very popular in central Europe and Scandinavia. With these cures it is tried to eliminate accumulated toxins during the winter, and to compensate the possible vitaminic deficit, product of a little diet in fruits and vegetables.

Also they are used like tonificantes in cases of lack of appetite and exhaustion, as well as in the convalecencia of debilitating diseases like the infectious ones.

Use: the juice of its fruits, means glass every 12 hours. In jelly or confitura of fruits.

Precautions: to avoid the green berries, since they can cause digestive intolerancia.

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