Matricaria chamomilla, the larranbilo is etxeero. It would be. Now, if it wasn't everywhere, yeah. Sometimes you have to calm your stomach. At least it is known in the medicine chest of the Basques, and we have not completely pulled it out of our imagination.

In this box of drugs, larranbilo has many friends: pasmo-belarra (Anagallis arvensis), verbena (Verbena officinalis), holy herb (Valeriana officinalis)... This officinalis, which appears in the scientific name of the plant, indicates that it can be purchased in stores, especially in pharmacies, that is, it is a medicinal herb.

Like Larranbilo, the blessed herb is also taken by infusion. Also the tilo flower, Tilia sp. Two are the best known tilos: Tilia platyphyllos, and Tilia cordata. The flower of both has been used in cooking, but the flower of the first one collects the flowers and the most beautiful words.

It was planted in the vicinity of the houses, but also on the grounds of the village. The branches of the trees, which looked like the most beautiful flowers, were picked up and planted. The plants belonged to the one who planted them because they were on communal grounds, and the property was kneeling on knees. Tilo can live for more than a thousand years, and as an expression of his long life, in Asturias they say: “Teya grows for a hundred years, a hundred lives years, and it takes a hundred years to die.” (The tilo grows a hundred years, lives a hundred years and dies a hundred years.) They flourish at the beginning of summer, a little bit earlier lush. It is now seen very late in the market, but before it was one of the benefits that the peasants brought to the streets.

At that time, there were a lot of people climbing around the tilos to prune the branches. Then they took him home and the wood was for the fire, the leaf was for the forage of the seeds and the flower began to dry in a dark place where the air was renewed. Its wood is mediocre, previously used to make pulleys and toys for yarns, but its charcoal had a specific use: for the gunpowder of caza.Con the heat these days, the flowers are proud of the pollen
heda and the hazelnut. Strong summer aromas in the open air. The thigh is lemon or jasmin, chestnut (Castanea sativa) with pain or heartburn tips.