Pomegranate (punica granatum L) have many properties that are beneficial to health. This plant comes from the Middle East, spread to tropical areas subtropical, and lowland until height of 1000 m above sea level. This plant is suitable in loose soil and not submerged in water, the ground water is not deep.
Pomegranate can be bred dengann cuttings, root buds, or grafts. There are 3 kinds of pomegranates are known to the public, the pomegranate red, white pomegranate and pomegranate purple.
The nature and efficacy of Pomegranate
Leather fruit taste sour, bitter, warm nature, astringent, toxic. Efficacious stop the bleeding (hemostatis), laxative intestinal worms (vermifuga), anti-diarrhea and anti-virus.
Skins of fruits and flowers were the strong astringent. The stew can both stop the bleeding.
Bark and roots have a weak odor and a sour taste. Efficacious as a laxative sputum, vermifuga, laxative and astringent bowel. Medium leaves for efficacious laxative menstruation.
Air nutritious pulp, laxative fart
Seeds are non-toxic and efficacious to reduce fever, antitoksik, lubricate the lungs, and relieve cough.
Pharmacological Effects and Outcomes Research
From some research, it is known that the pomegranate has several benefits including:
- Root bark efficacious laxative intestinal worms
- Skin of the fruit inhibited the growth of typhoid bacilli.
- Rind can control the spread of polio virus infection, herpes simplex virus and HIV virus.
Usage Guide Pomegranate fruit for several diseases:
1. Wormy
Wash the dried roots of pomegranate (about 7g), then cut into pieces as needed. Then boiled with one cup of water for 15 minutes. Once cool, strain and drink the water as well.
Mix pomegranate juice with carrot juice, half a cup each. Aduks until uniform, then drink as well.
2. Gingivitis
Wash the pomegranate flowers (about 7 petals) with clean water, then boiled with a glass of water until boiling. Once cool, strain and use mouthwash-gargle separately.
3. Bleeding
Boil pomegranate connection (approximately 20g) with three cups water until the remaining half. Drink boiled water twice a day, each three-fourths cup.
4. Wound
Combine powdered pomegranate skin of fruit or flowers to taste with sesame oil. Toss well, then apply on the wound.
5. Thrush
Take two fresh pomegranates are ripe. Take the following contents of the seeds, then mash until smooth. Add one cup of water, stirring evenly, then strain. Use water to rinse, then swallow. Do it 2-3 times a day until healed.
6. Frequent urination
Take the contents of pomegranate fruit (fresh and ripe, the fruit) and a handful of chives, then cut into pieces as needed. Boil three cups of water until the remaining half, remove and let cool. Drink boiled water twice a day, each three-fourths cup.
7. Whitish
Boil dried pomegranate skin (30 g) and dried bitter herbs (15 g) with one liter of clean water. Let the boiled water until the remaining half. Once cool, strain and drink for to 3 times, morning, noon, and night. Cooking water can also be used for vaginal washing.
8. Longstanding cough
Take a pomegranate that is not too ripe. Every night before bed, chewing the pomegranate seeds. Discard the seeds.
9. Hoarseness, sore throat
Take a fresh pomegranate, cut, and grab it. Chew, and throw bijiya. Do it 2-3 times a day.
10. Dysentery
Boil pomegranate skin, purslane (Portulaca oleacea), and spoons (Plantago major), and bitter (Andro graphis paniculata) (each 15 g) in three cups of water until the remaining one cup. Once cool, strain and for to 2 times drinks, morning and afternoon.
11. Chronic Diarrhea
Cut into thin rind of pomegranate (15 g) and nutmeg (Myristica fragrans) (10 g), and then boiled in a glass of water remaining one cup. Once cool strain and drink twice a day, each half a glass.
Note:
- Pomegranate white flowers marked with white and red flesh faded. It is said that the white pomegranate contains alkaloids that are more preferred for the treatment of
- Pregnant women and children should not use this herb.
- Because pelletierine and isopelletieriene highly toxic, particularly those found in the bark and root bark, use root bark extract and pomegranate must have supervision from an experienced herbalist.