Pomegranate

(Punica granatum L.)

Synonym:
Malum granatum Rumph.
Family:
Punicaceae.

Description:
Pomegranate comes from the Middle East, spread to tropical areas subtropik, from the lowlands to 1000 m below sea level. This plant likes loose soil that is not under water, ground water is not deep. Pomegranates are often planted in gardens as ornamental plants, medicinal plants, or for the edible fruit. The form of shrubs or small trees with a height of 2 to 5 m. Woody stem, twig-sided, branching many, weak, thorn in the armpit leaves, brown when young, green and dirty after dark. Leaves single, short-stemmed, located in groups. Oval shaped leaf blade until the lancet, base tapering, blunt edge, flat edge, pertulangan pinnate, shiny surface, the length of 1 to 9 cm, width 0.5 to 2, 5 cm, the color green. Single short-stemmed flowers, exit at the end of the branch or in the armpit leaves on top. Usually, there are one to five flowers, the colors red, white, or purple. Flowering throughout the year. Buni fruit fruit, round with a diameter of 5 to 12 cm, color variety, such as green purple, white, reddish brown or blackish purple. Sometimes, there are patches of color rather prominent old tebih. Seeds many, small, long, round-cornered square rather flat, hard, irregularly arranged, the color red, pink, or white. Known three kinds of pomegranates, the white pomegranate, pomegranate red, purple and pomegranate. Propagation by cuttings, roots or shoots of transplantation.

Local Name:
Sumatra LOCAL NAME: glima (Aceh), glimeu Mecca (Gayo), dalimo (Batak). Java: gangsalan (Java), dalima (Sunda), dhalima (Madura). Nusa Tenggara: jeliman (Sasak), talima (Bima), dila dae lok (Bread), lelo Kase, rumau (East). Maluku: dilimene (Kisar). NAME OF FOREIGN Shi liu (C), granaatappel (B), Grenadier (P), granatbaum (J), bullets (V), Thap thim (T), Granada (Tag.), pomegranate (I). NAME Simplisia Granati Cortex (Wit wood pomegranate), Granati Pericarpium (Wit pomegranate).


Curable Disease:
During harvest, fruits were collected. Seeds removed, then dried in the sun to dry skin. Before use, can be stored in well sealed containers. Fruit leather taste sour, bitter, warm nature, astringen, poisonous (toxic). Efficacious stop bleeding (hemostatis), intestinal worms peluruh (vermifuga), Antidiarrhoeals, and antivirus. The skin of fruit and flowers are strong astringen. Stew them can stop the bleeding. Bark and root bark has a weak smell and taste sour. Efficacious as peluruh sputum, vermifuga, laxatives, and bowel astringen. The leaves are believed to produce peluruh menstruation. Fruit flesh (meat packing seeds) efficacious Conditioning, peluruh fart. Seed cool character, not berracun, merit reliever fever, antitoksik, grease lungs, and relieve cough. Skin roots peluruh efficacious intestinal worms. Inhibit the growth of the fruit skin of typhoid bacillus. Fruit leather can control the spread of polio virus infection, herpes simplex virus, HIV virus clan.

Utilization:
PART USED
Plant part used as medicine are the bark, root bark, fruit leather, leaves, seeds, and flowers. Dried roots of skin before use. Fruit leather can be used fresh or after drying.

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

Skin roots and bark are used for:
intestinal worms, especially tapeworms (taeniasis),
cough,
diarrhea.

Flowers are used for:
gingivitis,
bleeding,
bronchitis.

Pulp is used for:
lose weight,
worms,
thrush, sore throat, hoarse voice,
High blood pressure (hypertension),
frequent urination,
rheumatism (arthritis),
flatulence

The seed is used for:
reduce fever, cough,
poisoning
worms.

How to Use:
For drugs taken, boiled the root bark or bark that has dried (7 g). Boiled fruit skin (10 - 15 g). Eat the fruit (1 fruit) or created juice. Can be mixed with carrot juice.
For external use, poached fruit or bark bark root, then use the cold water to gargle his mouth (gargle) on gingivitis, sore throat, wounds scalded fungal infection in the leg, or spray into the hole genitals (vagina) in white . Use the pomegranate juice to rinse the sores, gingivitis, cavities, or as a compress on the drugs that are inflamed hemorrhoids.

EXAMPLE OF USE IN THE COMMUNITY
Wormy
Wash roots dried 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 dried pomegranate skin and betel nut powder (each 15 g) with three glasses of clean water. Simmer slowly for one hour. Once cool, strain and drink well before breakfast.
Combine pomegranate juice with carrot juice, each half a glass. Stir until evenly distributed, and drink well
Enter your powder dry pomegranate seeds (one tablespoon) in a glass of pineapple juice is not too ripe. Toss well, drink when stomach is empty.

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

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

Luka
Combine powdered bark of pomegranate fruit or flowers to taste with sesame oil. Toss well, then apply on the wound.

Sprue
Take two fresh pomegranates are ripe. Take the following content of the seeds, then mash until smooth. Add one cup water, stirring thoroughly, then strain. Use water to rinse, then swallow. Apply 2 - 3 times a day until healed.

Frequent urination
Take the contents of pomegranate fruit (fresh and cooked, a fruit) and a handful of chives, then cut into pieces as needed. Boiled with three glasses of clean water until the remaining half, adoptive and chill. Drink boiled water twice a day, each cup three-quarters.

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

Long-standing cough
Take a pomegranate is not quite ripe. Every night before bed, chew the pomegranate seeds. Discard the seeds.

Hoarse voice, dry throat
Take a fresh pomegranate, cut, and take its contents. Chew, then seeded. Apply 2 - 3 times a day.

Lose weight

Composition:
Rind (shi liu pi) contains alkaloids pelletierene, granatin, betulic acid, ursolic acid, isoquercitrin, elligatanin, resins, triterpenoid, calcium oxalate, and starch. Skin roots and bark contain about 20% elligatanin and 0.5 - 1% alkaloid compounds, including alkaloids pelletierine (C8H14N0), pseudopelletierine (C9H15N0), metilpelletierine (C8H14NO.CH3), isopelletierine (C8H15N0), and metilisopellettierine (C9H1 , N0). Leaves contain alkaloids, tannins, calcium oxalate, fat, sulfur, peroxidase. Fruit juice contains citric acid, acid malate, glucose, fructose, maltose, vitamins (A, C), minerals (calcium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, sodium, and potassium), and tannins. Pelletierine highly toxic alkaloid and causes paralysis tapeworms, roundworms, and worm pinworm. The skin of fruit and bark so strong astringen also used to treat diarrhea.