Pomegranate

(Punica granatum L.)

Savor pomegranates for health are:

Wormy
- Wash the dried root of 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.
- Combine pomegranate juice with carrot juice, half a glass each. Stir until evenly distributed, then drink all at once.

Gingivitis
Wash seven pomegranate flower petals with water, then boiled with a glass of water until boiling. Once cool, strain and use to gargle-gargle.

Bleeding
Boil 20 g with pomegranate flower with three glasses of water until the remaining half. Drink boiled water twice a day, 3/4 cup each.

Wound
Combine powdered pomegranate skin of fruit 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 milled until smooth. Add one cup water, mixed well, then strain. Use water to rinse, then swallow. Do it 2-3 times a day until healed.

Frequent urination
Take the contents of a fresh pomegranate and ripe fruit and a handful of chives, then cut into pieces as needed. Boil three cups water until the remaining half, remove and let cool. Drink the water twice a day, 3/4 cup each.

Whitish
Boil some pomegranate skin dry 30 g and 15 g of dried bitter herbs with one quart of clean water. Let the boiled water until the remaining half. Once cool strain and drink for 3 times a day. Boiling water is also a bias for vaginal washing. Special married, use a syringe into the vagina.

Long-standing cough
Take the pomegranate is not overcooked. Every night before bed, chew the pomegranate seeds, remove seeds.

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

Lose weight
Take the pomegranate is still young (two), then milled until smooth. Add 1/2 cup cooking water and a pinch of salt, squeeze thoroughly, then squeeze and strain the fabric. Drinking water as well. Do it every day.

Chronic diarrhea
Cut a thin skin of the pomegranate 15 g and 10 g of nutmeg, then boiled with 2 cups of water until remaining 1 glass. Once cool, strain and drink 2 times a day, each 1/2 cup.

Note
• Pregnant women and children should not use this medicinal plant.

• Bark with alkaloid content pelletierine more efficacious against the worm pit than roundworms. The presence of large amounts of tannin in the bark often causes nausea and vomiting. So, before taking this stew, preferably fasting about 12 hours in advance. Alkaloidnya itself, in the form of tannate at a dose of medication often cause signs of poisoning.

• Because pelletierine and isopelletierine highly toxic, especially those found in the bark and roots of skin, the use of bark and root extracts of pomegranate should receive supervision from an experienced herbalist.