What are the effects and functions of pomegranate

Pomegranate is a very special fruit. Its hard shell contains many small fruits, and each of the small fruits contains a core. Let’s learn more about it.

The efficacy of pomegranate. Speaking of the efficacy of pomegranate. One thing that must be mentioned is its heart-protecting effect. A famous American journal once reported in great detail that pomegranate has a good preventive effect on various heart diseases. In many restaurants, the price of freshly squeezed pomegranate juice is surprisingly high. Pomegranate is particularly rich in nutrition, containing a variety of nutrients needed by the human body. The fruit contains vitamin C and B vitamins, organic acids, sugars, proteins, fats, and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, and potassium. According to analysis, pomegranate fruit contains 17% carbohydrates, 79% water, and 13-17% sugar. The content of vitamin C is 1-2 times higher than that of apples, while the content of fat and protein is relatively low. The fruit is mainly eaten fresh.

Benefits of Pomegranate:

1. Pomegranate juice contains a variety of amino acids and trace elements, which can help digestion, resist gastric ulcers, soften blood vessels, lower blood lipids and blood sugar, lower cholesterol, etc. It can prevent coronary heart disease and high blood pressure, and can achieve the effects of invigorating the stomach, refreshing the mind, enhancing appetite, and prolonging life. It has a miraculous effect on sobering up for those who drink too much.

2. Pomegranate is a treasure from head to toe. Its peel, roots and flowers can all be used as medicine. Its peel contains malic acid, tannins, alkaloids and other ingredients. According to relevant experiments, pomegranate peel has obvious antibacterial and astringent functions, which can make the intestinal mucosa astringent and reduce the secretion of intestinal mucus wax. Therefore, it can effectively treat diarrhea, dysentery and other diseases, and has a good inhibitory effect on Shigella dysenteriae and Escherichia coli. In addition, the peel of pomegranate contains alkaline substances, which have the effect of repelling insects; pomegranate flowers have the function of stopping bleeding, and soaking pomegranate flowers in water to wash eyes has the effect of improving eyesight.

3. Pomegranate is warm in nature, sweet, sour and astringent in taste, and enters the lung, kidney and large intestine meridians; it has the effects of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, astringing and solidifying, stopping diarrhea and stopping bleeding; it is mainly used to treat symptoms such as lack of fluid, dry mouth and throat, thirst, long-term diarrhea, long-term dysentery, bloody stool, and metrorrhagia.

Effects of Pomegranate:

1. Broad-spectrum antibacterial: Pomegranate peel contains a variety of alkaloids. Antibacterial tests have confirmed that the alcohol extract of pomegranate and the water decoction of the peel have a broad-spectrum antibacterial effect. It has a significant inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic Streptococcus, Vibrio cholerae, Shigella dysenteriae, etc., among which the strongest effect is on Shigella dysenteriae. The water extract of pomegranate peel also has different degrees of inhibitory effect on various skin fungi in the test tube. The decoction of pomegranate peel can also inhibit influenza virus;

2. Astringent and bowel-stringent: Pomegranate tastes sour and contains alkaloids, ursolic acid, etc. It has obvious astringent effect and can astringe the intestines and stop bleeding. In addition, it has good antibacterial effect, so it is a good product for treating dysentery, diarrhea, bloody stools, spermatorrhea, rectal prolapse and other diseases.

3. Deworming and killing insects: Pomegranate peel and pomegranate root bark contain pomegranate peel alkaloids, which have an anesthetic effect on human parasites and are important drugs for deworming and killing insects, especially for tapeworms. They can be used to treat abdominal pain caused by worm accumulation, scabies, etc.

4. Stop bleeding and improve eyesight: Pomegranate flowers are sour and flat in nature. If they are dried and ground into powder, they have a good hemostatic effect and can also stop leucorrhea. Soaking pomegranate flowers in water to wash eyes can also improve eyesight.

Dietary health care effects:

Modern research shows that the alkaloids contained in pomegranate peel have strong antibacterial effects, can cure dysentery, and also have an inhibitory effect on skin fungi. Pomegranates can be eaten raw to quench thirst, and can also be processed into syrups, beverages, etc., and their peels can be made into honey paste.

Pomegranate is both edible and medicinal

Pomegranate contains many nutrients needed by the human body. It is sweet and soothing to the throat when eaten raw, and can also be processed into a refreshing drink. If you peel it, remove the seeds, chop it, and cook it with tapioca pearls into porridge, add sugar and osmanthus, you will get a delicious and healthy pomegranate and tapioca pearls porridge, which can cleanse the stomach and aid digestion.

The whole plant of pomegranate can be used as medicine to treat many diseases. Its flowers are flat in nature and sour and astringent in taste. They can treat coughing up blood, lung pain, otitis media, and irregular menstruation. For example, to treat coughing up blood, take 24 fresh white pomegranate flowers and stew them with appropriate amount of white sugar. Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty wrote in "Compendium of Materia Medica" that pomegranate peel "stops diarrhea, bleeding, rectal prolapse, and metrorrhagia." To treat chronic dysentery, you can dry the old pomegranate peel, grind it into fine powder, and take it with rice soup. It can also treat spermatorrhea, psoriasis, rice field dermatitis, and calf sores. Pomegranate roots can treat roundworms, tapeworms, kidney stones, diabetes, and chyluria. For treating kidney stones, you can take 30 grams of pomegranate root and moneywort each, decoct them in water, and the effect is particularly good.

Modern pharmacological research shows that pomegranate contains tannins, resins, mannitol, isoprenaline and other ingredients. Its flowers, peels and root barks are antibacterial and antiviral, and have obvious inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Proteus and the like. Clinically, the decoction made from pomegranate peel has an ideal effect on various infectious diseases such as bacterial dysentery and amima dysentery. Its root bark decoction has a strong effect in killing tapeworms. In recent years, the Japanese medical community has studied the use of pomegranate fruit to treat liver disease, hypertension, and arteriosclerosis, and it has a certain effect.

Pomegranates contain twice as much vitamin C as apples

Pomegranates are juicy, sweet and sour, and can help to relieve hunger and thirst, and relieve hangovers. According to analysis, pomegranates contain tannins, sugars, malic acid, citric acid, protein, vitamin C, etc. The content of vitamin C is 1 to 2 times higher than that of apples, but the content of fat and protein is lower.

Israeli scholars have shown that drinking 2 to 3 ounces of pomegranate juice every day for two weeks can slow down the oxidation process by 40% and reduce the deposited oxidized cholesterol. Even if you stop drinking it, this miraculous effect will continue for a month. Moreover, pomegranate juice is extraordinary in its clinical effect in resisting cardiovascular disease. It is a more effective antioxidant juice than red wine, tomato juice, etc.