Bitter and thick oil almost like fish, obtained from the distillation of wood and red juniper berries, juniperus oxycedrus that also call each, cedar from Spain, juniper of the miera, jinebro, jimbro, oxyicedro and many other ways. It was used by shepherds to cure the roña. The name derives from the Latin adjective merus -a -um associated with the noun pix . Pix mere, pure fish.