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Wine was the perfect festival drink. San Martín de Unx, c. 1960.

Wine has likewise had important uses both in popular medicine and family diet.

Within the daily therapeutics of yesteryear’s Navarrese society, so far removed from medicines and drugs, wine and its derivatives helped in combating numerous diseases. Compresses of vinegar and salt served as a remedy for sprains in Améscoa and insect bites in San Martín de Unx. Vinegar being considered an efficient wound disinfectant, a good rub of it would fight ringworm in Izurdiaga, chilblains in Larraga, and even rabid dog bites in other localities. Vinegar patches to minimise the effects of cold sore outbreaks was another common use. (more…)