Busserole, bear grape with gargantuan properties
The bearberry is one of the most absent from medical literature throughout Antiquity. The Middle Ages do not do much better if we consider that the oldest documents concerning it date only to the 12th century: some English books relate its use, it is even mentioned in a Welsh herbarium from the 13th century, titled The Doctors of Myddfai. In France, it was Rabelais (doctor-writer) who was the first to stress the diuretic effects of bearberry in his literary work Gargantua , describing Pantagruel in the grip of a urinary tract infection . A little history In the 20th century, Botan reaffirms the diuretic and antiseptic powers of the plant . He writes that one “takes advantage of this...
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