It is the famous proverb “Mizpira, with no mouth in the anus”. It's good to calm your bowels... Mizpira (Mespilus germanica) is an ancient one in our culture. I do not know, however, names in Euskera that distinguish their variants. They will be, but they will be lost on the road... Of course, if anyone knew it.

Santi Onaindia (Amoroto 1909-1996 Zornotza) published in 1984 his book The Basques and Health devoted a nice space to the misery and in it he has taken up his expression. And other curiosities, one: “As a complement, the fruits of the mizpilla were good in the Middle Ages against fever, and to set the interior, which is the work of the steas. If we wash without the fox, the tender stomachs also comfortably lead.” Also: “With mizpillas, saponin and other softening substances that are overloaded with sugar, lead is good for dissipating them. Also to make the vice clear. Good breather water as an ingredient: squeeze some fruits to the brizna and take in fasting. If you can stay free.”

The reaction of vice or frustration has given me an eye. It took me a lot of work to realize that the word “vice” was doing it on the ground or touching the leather, and I was clarified when I learned that Santi was a Fraile Carmelite. It's hard to believe. Itxaro Borda, for his part, in his book of Kingdoms of the Skies of 2005 “ate with his eyes a stick that had the wooden mizpira erut” and “tore his cotton pants and brutally put him in the Rubicunda branch that had the mizpira as hard as a stick”.

Beyond writers, mizpira is really tough. I mean, Mizpira's tree. Apparent (spiny, twisted, twisted..) and in fact (with very hard and durable wood). White hawthorn that is usually the foot of the vaccine (Crataegus sp.) Will it not add this? The Greek word Krataegos means precisely that, force.

Not even their seeds germinate in any way. A few were born in the first year, but most take years to wear off the hard bone that protects them. To do this, there are those who crush them in scary sulphuric acid.

The famous punishment Euskal Makila is also made with mizpiraren wood. After many years of drought. And beating, beating, beating, hitting, hitting, hitting, or beating, what is it called? Mizpira broth.