Yellow Espino, a vitamin gift

The yellow barber berries constitute a privileged contribution of vitamin C, and its oil, obtained from pulp and seeds, is revealed as a magnificent cutaneous restorative.This beautiful shrub, also used in gardening, gives us a broad spectrum of health benefits, but also of remedies to take care of our skin, as we will see below.

The yellow thorn is a shrub that shapes barriers where it grows, highly estimated in gardening, and from which very valuable medicinal and cosmetic applications are obtained, although it is not precisely a well -known and requested plant in the herbalists in the herbalists.The fruits are edible, very nutritious, and they are taken raw, in juices and jellies, but they are also very sought after by wild birds.

How is the yellow bar

This bush of the Eleagnáceas family, known by the botanists as Hippophäe rhamnoids l., reaches between one and three meters high, usually lower.Very branched from its base, it presents woody branches armed with small thorns, elongated leaves-linear-lanceolates-up to 8 cm long, and grayish green or silver by the reverse.The un showing flowers are covered with green -tone scales, female flowers are lonely and masculine.The most colorful part of this bush is its fruits, spherical and fleshy, bright orange, with one or several seeds inside.

It is frequent in coastal environments, about sea dunes and sand, but also on river banks and forest margins.It is extended by much of Europe and central and northern Asia in different subspecies, but in the Iberian Peninsula only one population in the Pyrenees of Huesca is known, strictly protected.It has been planted a lot in parks and gardens, although in recent years much less.

Active ingredients of yellow bar

The fruits of the yellow bar.They are harvested when they reach their maturity or just before.From the pulp and seeds a vegetable oil is obtained with large medicinal and cosmetic applications as we will see.

The active principles of the fruits of the yellow thorn are summarized below, although there are differences according to subspecies:

These active ingredients confer vitamin, nutritious, remineralizing, energy, anti -classical, immunostimulants, astringent, antidiarrhean, antioxidant, demulcent, anti -inflammatory, hypoliplamia, lightly hypotensor and healing properties.