Fruits medicinal

The berries have been a traditional remedy in folk medicine, such as raspberries used for liver disorders, or blueberries gorse, which pre-Columbian tribes used to treat urinary infections.

They were also credited with preventing heart disease and tumors. Its therapeutic properties are based on their content of fiber and antioxidants. as ascorbic acid, tocopherols, flavonoids and antocianidinas.

These are some of those fruits:

• sloe-Blackthorn.
Gives a drupe dark blue or black that is used to prepare jellies. jams, Pacha and other liquors.

• Madroño-unetio-Arbutus.
The bush is part of the arms of Madrid. The result is a soft yellowish meat, sweet, but indigestible. If you are very mature contains alcohol. It is used to manufacture
homemade liqueurs.

• Cassis grossularia-white-Ribes.
Fruit yellow skin with a little hairy, acidic taste. more or less sweet. Some varieties are eaten raw, others, jams and pastries.

• Blackcurrants-blackcurrant.
Similar to blueberry, thick-skinned and red meat, and aromatic acid. It is used in jellies and liqueurs-cassis. It is laxative and has more vitamin C than orange juice.

• Redcurrants-rubum-Ribes. This soft crystalline consumed raw, jellies and jams. Rich in vitamins, if well is ripe diuretic.

• Bilberry-Vaccinium myrtillus.
Red fruit to ripen that becomes dark blue or black, round. with a crown. The flesh is juicy, sweet and acid. Used in crude, for jellies and liqueurs. Contains tetaninos.

• Raspberry-Rubus ideaus.
The fruit is formed by drupa grouped in pineapple. It is very delicate and loses aroma from the moment of her collection. From bittersweet flavor, consumed raw, jams and jellies.

• Zarzamora-Rubus fruticosus.
It grows wild throughout the peninsula. The ripe fruit, black, aromatic, sour and sweet crude is consumed in jams and liqueurs. It is astringent and a diuretic, for their potassium content.