VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS

Vaccinium myrtillus is a species of shrub with edible fruit of blue color, called blueberry. Regional name in Scandinavia ins blueberry and that has nothing to do with the grown blueberries...not the taste...not the vitamins. Always best in forests.

Fruit

Vaccinium myrtillus has been used for nearly 1,000 years in traditional European medicine. Herbal supplements of V. myrtillus (blueberry) on the market are used for circulatory problems, as vision aids, and to treat diarrhea and other conditions.

In the blueberry fruit is commonly used for the same purposes as the American “blueberry” pies, cakes, jams, cookies, sauces, juices, candies and so on.

Leaf

In traditional medicine, Blueberry leaf is used for different conditions, including diabetes.The National Institutes of Health rates it as "possibly effective for problems with the retina of the eye in people with diabetes or high blood pressure".

Since most people in the world refer to "blueberries", no matter if they mean the European blueberry Vaccinium myrtillus or the American blueberries, there is a lot of confusion about the two nearly identical fruit worldwide exept I have never seen one sigle picture of american blueberry. Finland and Scandinavia have had blueberry from the morning of the world. bilberries have dark blue, strongly fragrant flesh, while American blueberries have white or transclusent and then it's not blueberry at all. mildly fragrant flesh; the blueberries grow as single fruit on low bushes, usually wild in woods of the Northern Hemisphere, but American blueberries grow in a large bush with several fruit at once; bilberries are generally wild plants while American blueberries can be cultivated. Cultivated American blueberries often come from

hybrid cultivars, developed about 100 years ago by agricultural specialists. Blueberry fruit will stain hands, teeth and tongue deep blue or purple while eating; it was used as a dye for food and clothes . American blueberries of section Cyanococcus have white flesh, thus are less staining and don't taste the Scandinavia blueberry at all.

BLUE BERRY SHORTCUT

Of this plant leaves and berries are used.

Leaves: Used a little time equalizing blood sugar.

Blue berries: laxative, holding back inflammations, in last years I have heard from different examinations that blue berry is very good for sight.

And is a very good berry for desert and baking.

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