Pomegranate peel porridge benefits

1. Antibacterial Effect

Pomegranate peel has different degrees of inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic streptococci, Salmonella typhi, Salmonella paratyphi, Vibrio cholerae, Escherichia coli, Proteus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Neisseria meningitidis, Helicobacter pylori, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, various Shigella dysenteriae, etc., among which the strongest effect is on Salmonella typhi and Shigella dysenteriae. Pomegranate peel water extract also has different degrees of inhibitory effect on a variety of pathogenic fungi.

2. Antiviral Effect

Pomegranate peel tannin is an effective ingredient against genital herpes virus. It can not only inhibit the proliferation of the virus in cells, but also directly kill the virus and prevent it from adsorbing cells. Pomegranate peel decoction has an inhibitory effect on influenza A PR8 strain virus. Pomegranate peel water extract has an in vitro inactivation effect on HBV.

3. Anti-insect effect

Pomegranate peel decoction has the effect of expelling tapeworms, and its active ingredients are pomegranate alkaloids, isopomegranate alkaloids, pseudopomegranate alkaloids, etc. Its mechanism is to act on the muscles of tapeworms, causing them to contract continuously.

4. Other functions

Punica granatum has an excitatory effect on the spinal cord of warm-blooded animals, which can cause convulsions. Large doses can paralyze motor nerve endings and eventually cause death due to paralysis of the respiratory center. Pomegranate peel tannins help local wound healing or protect local areas from irritation. A compound in the methanol extract of pomegranate peel inhibits the carbonic acid dehydrogenase activity of bovine red blood cells. Pomegranate peel powder can reduce the pregnancy rate of female rats.

5. Toxicity

The LD50 of pomegranate peel water extract in rats is 4.785g/kg for oral administration and 799.9g/kg for intraperitoneal administration in mice. There is no mutagenicity or teratogenicity in reproductive toxicity experiments.