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Pomegranates - Punica granatum L.


Pomegranates originated from the Middle East, spread in subtropical to tropical areas, from lowlands to below 1,000 m asl. This plant likes loose soil that is not submerged in water, with groundwater that is not deep. Pomegranates are often planted in gardens as ornamental plants, medicinal plants, or as an edible fruit. The form of shrubs or small trees with a height of 2-5 m. Woody stems, twigs sided, branching much, weak, spiked at the armpit leaves, brown when young, green and dirty after dark. Single leaf, short-stemmed, located in groups. Leaf blade oblong to oblong shape, base tapering, blunt edge, flat edge, pertulangan pinnate, shiny surfaces, the length of 1-9 cm, width 0.5 to 2, 5 cm, the color green. Single short-stemmed flowers, out in the end of the branch or in the armpit leaves at the top. Typically, there are one to five flowers, the colors red, white, or purple. Flowering throughout the year. The fruit is fruit Buni, round shape with a diameter of 5-12 cm, color variety, such as green-purple, white, reddish brown, or purple-black. Sometimes, there are patches of colored tebih rather prominent old. Seeds many, small, round-cornered long-terms rather flat, hard, irregularly arranged, the color red, pink, or white. Known for three kinds of pomegranate, pomegranate namely white, red pomegranates, and pomegranate purple. Propagation by cuttings, roots or shoots of grafts.

Curable Disease:
During harvest, fruits were collected. Seeds removed, then dried in the sun to dry skin. Prior to use, can be stored in well sealed containers. Skin of the fruit taste sour, bitter, warm nature, astringent, toxic (toxic). Efficacious stop the bleeding (hemostatis), peluruh intestinal worms (vermifuga), antidiarrheal, and antivirus. Skin of fruit and flowers is a powerful astringent. Decoction both can stop the bleeding. Bark and root bark has a weak odor and sour taste. Efficacious as a laxative sputum, vermifuga, laxatives, and intestinal astringent. The leaves are efficacious for peluruh menstruation. Fruit flesh (meat packing seeds) efficacious conditioning, peluruh fart. Seeds of its cool, not berracun, efficacious fever reliever, antitoksik, lubricate the lung and relieve cough. Root bark efficacious laxative intestinal worms. Skin of the fruit inhibited the growth of typhoid bacilli. Fruit skin can control the spread of polio virus infection, herpes simplex virus, HIV virus clan.

Composition:
Rind (shi liu pi) contains alkaloid pelletierene, granatin, betulic acid, ursolic acid, isoquercitrin, elligatanin, resin, triterpenoid, calcium oxalate, and starch. Root bark and bark contains about 20% elligatanin and 0.5 - 1% alkaloid compounds, including alkaloids pelletierine (C8H14N0), pseudopelletierine (C9H15N0), metilpelletierine (C8H14NO.CH3), isopelletierine (C8H15N0), and metilisopellettierine (C9H1 , N0). The leaves contain alkaloids, tannins, calcium oxalate, fat, sulfur, peroxidase. Fruit juice contains citric acid, malic acid, glucose, fructose, maltose, vitamins (A, C), minerals (calcium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, sodium, and potassium), and tannins. Pelletierine highly toxic alkaloid and causes paralysis of the tapeworm, roundworm, pinworm, and worms. Fruit skin and astringent bark also strong that is used for treatment of diarrhea.

PART USED
Parts of plants used as medicine are the bark, root bark, fruit skin, leaves, seeds, and flowers. Root bark was dried before use. Fruit skin can be used fresh or after drying.

INDICATIONS
Rind (shi flu pi) is used for:
abdominal pain due to worms,
bowel movements containing blood and mucus (amoebic dysentery),
chronic diarrhea,
bleeding such as bleeding hemorrhoids, vomiting blood, coughing up blood, uterine bleeding, rectal bleeding,
rectal prolapse,
sore throat,
inflammation of the ear,
whitish (leukorea)
stomach pain.

Root bark and bark are used for:
wormy especially tapeworm (taeniasis),
cough,
diarrhea.

Flowers are used for:
gingivitis,
bleeding,
bronchitis.

The pulp is used for:
lose weight,
worms,
thrush, sore throat, hoarseness,
High blood pressure (hypertension),
frequent urination,
rheumatism (arthritis),
flatulence

Seeds are used for:
reduce fever, cough,
poisoned
intestinal worms.

How to Use
For drugs taken, boiled root bark or bark that has been dried (7 g). Boil the fruit skin (10-15 g). Eat fruit (1 fruit) or made juice. Can be mixed with carrot juice.
For external use only, boiled rind or skin of the root, then use cold water to rinse after-gargle (gargle) on gingivitis, sore throat, scalded wound, fungal infection in the foot, or sprayed into the hole genitals (vagina) on a whitish . Use pomegranate juice to rinse the canker sores, gingivitis, cavities, or as a compress on the drug being inflamed hemorrhoids.

EXAMPLE OF USAGE IN PUBLIC
Wormy
Wash the dried root Pomegranate (7 g.), then cut into pieces as needed. Boil with one glass of water for 15 minutes. Once cool, strain and drink the water at once.
Boil the dried and powdered pomegranate skin areca seed (each 15 g) with three cups water. Simmer slowly for one hour. Once cool, strain and drink well before breakfast.
Combine pomegranate juice with carrot juice, half a glass each. Stir thoroughly, then drink well
Enter your powder dry pomegranate seeds (one tablespoon) in a glass of pineapple juice that has not been overcooked. Toss well, drinking with an empty stomach.

Gingivitis
Wash the pomegranate flowers (seven petals) with clean water, then boiled with a glass of water until boiling. Once cool, strain and use to rinse his mouth.

Bleeding
Boil pomegranate flowers (20 g) with three glasses of water until the remaining half. Drinking boiled water twice a day, each three-fourths cup.

Wound
Combine powdered pomegranate rind or flowers to taste with sesame oil. Stir well, then apply on the wound.

Sprue
Take two fresh pomegranates are ripe. Take the following contents of the seeds, then mash until smooth. Add one cup water, stirring evenly, then strain. Use water to gargle, then swallow. Do it 2-3 times a day until healed.

Frequent urination
Take 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. Drinking boiled water twice a day, each three-fourths cup.

Whitish
Boil dried pomegranate skin (30 g) and dried bitter herbs (15 g) with one liter of clean water. Allow the water boiled the remaining half. Once cool, strain to three times the clan for a drink, morning, noon and night. Boiling water can also be used for vaginal washing. Special married woman, use with a syringe into the vagina.

Long-standing cough
Take a pomegranate that has not been overcooked. Every night before bed, chew the pomegranate seeds. Discard the seeds.

Hoarseness, dry throat
Take a fresh pomegranate, cut, and take its contents. Chew, and then seeded. Do it 2-3 times a day.

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