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Mistol

Mistol (Zizyphus mistol Griseb. )
Family: Ramnáceas.
Origin: Native
Other Names: Sacha mistol; Mistol cuaresmillo; Azufaito; Juasy'y Chaco; Yuyuví; Yuai (Izoceño-Guaraní) ; Ahááyuk (Weenhayek, data Huáscar Rodrigo Quiroga Cortez: "Sacred Weenhayek the people of Gran Chaco province of Tarija, Bolivia" , Cochabamba, Bolivia, 2007) ; Nalaic (Toba, data "Strengthening Productive Development Community " Barrio Toba Com 'Lec, Ingeniero Juarez, Formosa) / Na'allaic (Toba, etymological approach: Na'ala (fruit), data Braunstein, Joseph "Towards a new ethnic card in the Gran Chaco" , Buenos Aires, Chaco Old Man Center, 2009).
The following names for the mistol: Yuasi, Goat and Mbocaya'í Mbocaya (Guarani) , nausea (Maskoy) ; Ajoitaj (Nivaclé) , Intalaluk (Maká) , Nujná (Ayoreo) , (recorded by Mereles, Fatima and Degen, Rosa: "The common names of trees and shrubs in the Chaco Boreal" , Paraguay) .

The generic name Zizyphus is due to the zigzag nature of its branches, is a Latinized version of ' zizouf ' the Arabic vernacular Z. jujuba. mistol respect to the common name referred to the Santiago del Estero Quichua Portal: Mistol: s. Bot. Zisyphus mistol, beautiful round crown thick tree and dense foliage. Its fruit, red and sweet, has a wide application in the popular diet. We believe with Lafone Quevedo, which is word Cacan. Our "quichuistas" to assimilate, have reduced their phonetic pronouncing mishtol. In the composition of place names and other names quichuizados. mistol The name is also according to other sources attributed to the characteristics of wood (sapwood and heartwood clear red), considered as a mixed species between quebracho (quebracho-colorado Schinopsis) and white quebracho (Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco).

Av San Martín 1100 , Resistencia (Chaco, Argentina)

Dobrizhoffer Martin, a Jesuit missionary who lived long among the natives of the Chaco territory, refers: "Mistol: With red-brown wood, hard and heavy Mistol tall tree can carve the most excellent pestles and throws sticks. Its fruit Abipones Naal call is red, the size of a walnut and Ziziphus resembles that in English is called jujube, but the pharmacist jujuba language and in times past has taken him from Africa to Spain and Italy. She has a tender skin, a quite large and hard stone and edible pulp. It also makes it a sweet drink until bread that the Indians are as good as it seems tasteless to me. Doctors in Europe prescribe the jujuba ziziphum or in diseases of the chest, coughing, whooping and pleurisy. I do not know if the mistol paracuario has the same virtue. " (Dobrizhoffer, Martino:" History of Abiponibus, equestrian bellicosaque Paraquariae Nation, 1784. Translated by Edmundo Wernicke: "History of the Abipones", Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Faculty of Humanities, Department of History, Resistencia, Chaco 1967, text available on the Virtual Library Paraguay)

Among its many uses and properties include: Food, Crafts, forage, honey, Medicinal, Timber, Tannins and Dyes :

• Food: The fruits are food and serve as an ingredient in various preparations (candy, jams, desserts, liqueurs, type chutneys chutneys, dried fruit, etc.) crushed seeds are used as coffee substitute. With the fruit is produced syrup, brandy and the traditional "bolanchao", a typical dessert of northern Argentina. The syrup is a thick sweet syrup, dark and honey-like, is prepared with fruit mistol or other native species such as Chan. The Bolanchao is a kind of dumpling that is prepared by grinding in a mortar a bulk of the fruits of mistol without the addition of water (must get to the point of pasta granulosa). The dough does not require the addition of water and fruits are those that provide moisture to achieve the consistency needed to form a series of balls (like small meatballs), which is then sprinkled with toasted carob flour and put browning in the oven. The leaves and fruits are sought by birds of many species, wild and domestic animals.

• Medicinal: Used bark, wood, roots, fruit, foliage. infusion against bilious colic, an antidote to snake bites and stings of poisonous insects.
• scraped bark of the trunk and roots are used as soap to clean clothes .
• dye: The bark of the trunk and roots are used to stain brown.
• Timber: the veins of purple hues are prized in furniture making, general construction. Craft
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• a coal of excellent quality.

The "Cross of Matara" , a sixteenth-century carving considered testimony of American evangelism - and appearing on the cover of the Roman Missal by order of the Episcopate Argentina - was carved by Aboriginal hands mistol wood. ( Matara: Give , Wikipedia and "The Cross of Matara" a Symbol Missionary Latin America)

The mistol is one of the nominated trees in northern folklore, traditions, music, poetry, myths and legends , particularly related to Quechua santiagueño :

• .... She was born like me / In mishtol payments / Where burns much sun / cigar is pita chala / Where vidalas sing / And being Creole is an honor .... (Apology of the Letter of Julio Argentino Chacarera Gerez)
• "I santiagueño, gentlemen, / I do not deny my nation / en l'hang my hat / I chañar and mistol. " ( Jorge M. Furt: Cancionero popular rioplatense Lyric gaucho. Volume I)
• "You will sleep in my eyes about your hair / and in the open sun / flower loving home / santiagueña honey, sweet as mistol / my dreams I dream / santiagueña of my heart." (Chorus of Zamba La Amorosa Lyrics: Oscar Valles, Music: Diaz Brothers)
• "I miss my songs to the wind / Wherever I go / I'm a tree full of fruit / As plantita'e mistol ... " (couplet)
  

plants prominently in African ritual practices and recreate colorful stories related to dreams, death and superstition, is the case of using a tree branch known as Christ's Thorn (Ziziphus), which has mystical properties in the local tradition and is used to collect and transport the spirit of the dead . Young branches of the trees have a characteristic zigzag shape, which symbolizes that the path of life is never simple, for its part, the sharp thorns at the nodes that point to both sides, a smaller back who never reminded not forget the origin (where we came from), and a longer blade pointing forward and represents the path that remains to be recored. When death of a loved one with a branch touches the chest of the deceased, freeing the spirit from the body. If the person dies away from home, a family member can travel, collecting and transporting the spirit captured by the industry, and bring back to their place of origin for burial. Even said that if the trip is done by a public transportation usually buy a ticket so that the branch has its own seat, a space that will be respected by other passengers. (South African National Biodiversity Institute)
After the scourging, Jesus was placed on her head a crown of thorns, as an ironic emblem of his kingship and, according to numerous studies and research about the thorny branches used would be a thorny bush in Palestine, the Ziziphus Jujube and / or called Spina Christi, with sharp thorns.
La Espina de Cristo - jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) - is often mentioned in both Christian and Muslim traditions and was also recorded by the pilgrims visiting the Holy Land for generations. Botanists in the Bible experts are constantly involved in a great debate about which species are the "bush" or "thorns" and "Crown of Thorns", which on the basis of traditions local and ancient sources, are commonly thought to refer to the Z. spina-christi . Links


Amots Dafni, Gerardo Levi, Lev Efraim: The ethnobotany of Christ's Thorn Jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) in Israel . This article examines the ethnobotany of Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) in the Middle East, from various aspects: historical, religious, philological, literary, linguistic, and pharmacology, among Muslims, Jews and Christians. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2005.
Pijoan, Manuel (Chemical and Biologist): "The sweets of a world without sugar" , pharmaceutical field, Ethnobotany, Vol 25 NO 5 May 2oo6