NISPERO GERMANICO (mespilus germanica)

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	NISPERO GERMANICO
	*mespilus germanica*

Name
NISPERO GERMANICO

Scientific Name
mespilus germanica

NISPERO GERMANICO

Family Rosaceous.

Description: Small tree, of 3 to 9 ms of height, with winding trunk, tomentosas and thorny branches, of dark color. The leaves are great, lanceoladas, finishing in end. The margin is whole in first half of the leaf and later it is made dentated. The lamina is opaquely and smooth superior. The inferior face is pubescente by the presence of small hairs. The flowers are white, solitary, subsésiles in the apex of the small branches, surrounded by great leaves. The chalice is pentasépalo and the corola, pentapétala white, with numerous estambres of dark color. The fruit or, with more exactitude, the false fruit (since the receiver and the chalice are developed and they become persistent locking up the true fruit) contains five seeds of color oxide, and in the extremity it takes the prolongation of the five sépalos as a tongue-piece. It grows in general in the forests and between the fences. Present also cultivated. It is collected in May and autumn.

Used parts: Leaves, fruits, seeds.

Composed chemical: Tannin, citric, málico acid, peptic substances, sugars, vitamins.

Indications: Laxative (pulp), astringent (leaves), litóntricas (seeds).

Way of use: Electuario, decocción, maceration.

Information: The fruit is only eatable after the maturation. It is possible to be conserved although nearly time. From the maceration, previous distillation, obtains alcohol. The crust was used like sucedáneo of the quinine with uncertain results. The use of dusts of the seed, like litóntrico, must be careful dice the hydrocyanic acid content.

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