Introduction
Pomegranate tree is grown everywhere in our country. Pomegranates grown in Afghanistan and northern part of India are very juicy and of good quality. Pomegranate trees are about 6 meters high with many branches. Its bark is smooth, thin, yellow or dark brown. Its leaves are somewhat long and less wide and the flowers are orange and red in color, sometimes yellow with 5-7 petals, single or in bunches of 3-4. Pomegranate fruit is spherical, about 2 inches in diameter. After removing the peel of its fruit, there are juicy grains of white, red or pink color. In terms of juice, this fruit is of three types, sweet, sour and sour. Not only the fruit of pomegranate but its tree is also full of medicinal properties. More properties are found in the bud and peel than in the fruit.
Properties
Consumption of pomegranate removes the deficiency of blood in the body, it softens the stomach, brings urine, is beneficial for the heart. Eliminates thirst. Strengthens the body, nourishes every part of the body. It is useful in various diseases. Fine powder of pomegranate seeds is tasty, helps in digestion and increases appetite and is beneficial in poor digestion, flatulence, indigestion, diarrhoea, throat diseases, weakness and cough.
According to scientific opinion, pomegranate seeds contain 78% moisture, 14.5% carbohydrate, 1.6% protein, 0.1% fat. Apart from this, it contains phosphorus, calcium, sodium, magnesium, potassium, oxalic acid, copper, iron, sulphur, tannin, sugar, vitamins. The bark of the fruit contains 25% tannin, the pulp of the stem contains up to 25%, the leaves contain 11% and the bark of the root contains 28% tannin.
Harmful effects
All types of pomegranates are harmful for those with cold nature. Sweet pomegranates can be harmful for those with fever, sour and tasteless pomegranates can be harmful for those with cold nature.
Treatment of various diseases
1. Nose bleeding or Epistaxis:
Putting pomegranate juice in the nose stops nose bleeding.
By extracting the root juice of pomegranate flowers and durva (grass called dub) and putting it in the nose and applying it on the palate, the flow of blood from the nose due to heat stops immediately.
Grind 100 grams of green pomegranate leaves, 50 grams of marigold leaves, 100 grams of green coriander and 100 grams of green dub (grass) together and mix them in water to make sherbet. Drinking this sherbet 4 times a day cures nose bleeding. Drinking 100 ml of pomegranate juice continuously for a few days to a patient suffering from nose bleeding is beneficial.
Mixing 2 teaspoons of sugar candy in half a cup of sweet and sour pomegranate juice and drinking it daily at noon cures nose bleeding in summer season.
Pouring pomegranate juice in the nostrils stops nose bleeding. Pomegranate is beneficial in appendicitis and fever lasting for more than 7 days. The bud of pomegranate which falls down due to gusts of wind as soon as it comes out, is useful in removing excessive contraction and wetness. Dropping 1-2 drops of its juice in the nose or smelling it stops nose bleeding. It is a very useful medicine for nose bleeding.
Grinding pomegranate peel with date palm water and applying it as a paste helps in swelling and dropping its dry fine powder in the nose helps in nose bleeding. Drinking decoction of pomegranate leaves or 10 grams of juice and applying it on the forehead is beneficial in nosebleeding.
2. Nosebleeding due to heat:
Pomegranate flower and grass root juice should be extracted and put in the nose or only pomegranate flower juice should be put in the nose and applied on the brain. This stops nosebleeding.
3. Excessive urination (polyuria):
Consume 1 teaspoon of pomegranate peel powder with a cup of water 3 times a day. This cures polyuria.
Dry pomegranate peels in the shade and make fine powder. Taking 3 grams of powder with water in the morning and evening relieves frequent urination.
4. Facial beauty:
Mix fine powder of pomegranate peels in rose water and make a good paste. Apply this paste regularly before sleeping and wash the face in the morning. This will remove the marks and pigmentation marks and will make the face glow.
Mix 100 ml of fresh green pomegranate leaf juice in 1 kg of mustard oil. Massaging this oil on the face will remove pimples, pigmentation and black spots.
5. Body heat:
Drinking pomegranate juice mixed with water will remove the increased body heat in summers.
6. Indigestion:
Mixing 1 teaspoon cumin seeds and equal amount of jaggery in 3 teaspoons pomegranate juice and consuming it after meals cures indigestion.
Grind 40 grams of powder of pomegranate leaves dried in shade and 10 grams of rock salt and keep them in powder form. Consuming 4 grams each in the morning and evening with water before meals cures indigestion.
Take equal amounts of pomegranate juice, honey and sesame oil and prepare a total mixture of 50 grams. Add 6 grams cumin seeds and 6 grams sugar candy to it and fill it in the mouth and keep moving the mouth for some time. When water starts coming out of the eyes and nose, rinse it and then fill the mouth with fresh juice again. Do this 8-10 times a day. Apart from this, it is also beneficial in the condition when there is no hunger at all and there is a disorder in the liver.
Fill 1 gram of sweet and sour pomegranate juice in the mouth, stir it slowly and drink it. By doing this 8 or 10 times, the taste of the mouth improves and intestinal disorders are digested and the loss of appetite caused due to fever is also cured.
Mixing honey in sweet pomegranate juice and drinking it gives relief in loss of appetite.
7. Bleeding from teeth:
Dry pomegranate flowers in the shade and grind them finely. Applying it on teeth 2 or 3 times a day like toothpaste stops bleeding from teeth and strengthens teeth.
8. Vomiting:
Grinding pomegranate seeds and mixing a little black pepper and salt in it and eating it gives relief in vomiting of bile and nervousness.
Vomiting disorder (vomiting) of pregnant women is cured by drinking pomegranate juice.
Mixing honey in pomegranate juice and licking it stops vomiting.
Soak dry pomegranate seeds in water. Drinking this water after some time gives relief in vomiting.
Mixing 25 grams puffed rice flour and 25 grams sugar in 200 ml of sweet and sour pomegranate juice and consuming it cools down the heat of the brain. Its use also removes bodily heat and is also effective in calming down bilious fever. Its consumption also removes the burning sensation, anxiety, vomiting and thirst of fever caused by heat stroke.
9. Children's cough:
If children have cough, they should be given pomegranate bark to eat or ghee, sugar, cardamom and almonds should be mixed in pomegranate juice and given to them.
10. Children's diarrhea and dysentery:
If children have diarrhea or dysentery, grinding pomegranate bark and giving it to them to drink is beneficial.
11. Intestinal worms:
Make a decoction of the root and stem bark of pomegranate and give it to them to drink or mix sesame oil in the decoction of pomegranate bark and give it to them for 3 days. This destroys the stomach worms.
If it is pumpkin seed worm, then grind 50 grams of pomegranate root bark coarsely and boil it in 2 liters of water. When half the water is left, take it off. After this, consume 50 grams on an empty stomach in the morning, 4 times at an interval of half an hour. Then consume castor oil once. Children should be given up to 10 ml of decoction.
Grind pomegranate leaves dried in the shade, filter them and consume 6 grams in the morning with cow's buttermilk or fresh water. This removes all the worms of the stomach.
Grind 10 grams of pomegranate root bark, 6-6 grams of vaybidang and indrajau and prepare a decoction. After this, by consuming the decoction, the worms of the stomach die and come out with the stool.
By boiling 20-20 grams of sour pomegranate peel and mulberry in 200 ml water and drinking it, the worms of the stomach are destroyed. Take 50 grams of fresh bark of the root of pomegranate tree and cut it into pieces. Boil 5 grams of Palas seed powder, 10 grams of Bayberry in one liter of water. Keep boiling it till half the water remains. After that take it down and filter it when it cools down. By giving this water four times a day at an interval of half an hour in the amount of 50-50 grams and later giving laxative of castor oil, all types of stomach worms are eliminated.
Consume powder of dried peel of pomegranate in the amount of 1 teaspoon 3 times a day regularly for a few days. This destroys the stomach worms. This experiment is also beneficial in bloody diarrhea, bloody piles, nocturnal emission, excessive menstruation.
Remove the bark of pomegranate fruit, then make a decoction from it and by mixing 1 gram of sesame oil in it and drinking, stomach worms are eliminated. Make a decoction by mixing the bark of pomegranate root, Palas seeds and Vayvindg. By drinking this decoction with honey, cotton, flat and round worms inside the stomach die and come out through the stool.
Intestinal worms are eliminated by mixing sweet oil in the decoction of pomegranate root and consuming it for 3 days.
Boil 50 grams of pomegranate root bark in 250 ml water, when the water is left in the amount of 100 grams, then drinking this decoction 3-4 times a day eliminates the stomach worms.
Consume 3 grams of pomegranate peel powder with curd or buttermilk (whey). Soak the bark of pomegranate in water for 24 hours, then boil the same water and drink it in the morning on an empty stomach, the tapeworm (worm) of the stomach dies.
12. Hot Pitta:
Add pomegranate juice to sugar syrup and filter it through a cloth. If needed, drink 20 grams of syrup with 20 ml water. This eliminates hot Pitta.
