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Pomegranate: rich source of health!


Money, prosperity, abundance, these are some of the gifts given to small tasty pomegranate seeds.

The pomegranate, Punica granatum, is ancient and exotic fruit. There are records of remains of the fruit in Egyptian tombs over four millennia. She was quoted in the Egyptian and Hebrew literature and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet work. The Greeks considered it as a symbol of love and fertility and the pomegranate tree was dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, because it was believed it had aphrodisiac virtues. For Israelis, the pomegranate is a symbol of deep religious significance.

Believe me, the fruit brings a lot of wealth and affluence. These donations come from port health. The pomegranate is "filled" with rich medicinal properties. Until recently, these important properties, were known only interested in mythology or ancient Chinese medicine. According to records of ancient Chinese herbal medicine, pomegranate juice increases longevity.

Currently, the pomegranate seed and acidic taste have always been appreciated as fruit, is also considered modern medical source. The uses are diverse. In Brazil, a tea-based pomegranate husk is being used as a natural antibiotic. In Israel, two researchers study on treatments and products derived from fruit.

Pomegranates - promising future?

Research on the healing properties of pomegranate are serious and very promising.

Dr. Michael Aviram, uses pomegranate juice for fighting cholesterol and heart problems in the Lipid Research Laboratory, the Rambam Medical Center in Israel. Over the past twenty years the biochemical research on ways to prevent or eliminate cholesterol deposits in arteries, provocatively of cardiac and myocardial infarction. When looking for natural alternatives, the scientist twenty products tested different pomegranate. Found in pomegranate juice powerful antioxidant, a flavonoid type more effective in preventing heart problems than the existing one in tomato and red wine.

He manages pomegranate juice in patients with stenosis in the carotid arteries, ie narrowing the arteries that carry blood to the brain. The results were quick and impressive. According to Aviram, improvements were observed in the first month of treatment. His research also report on high-risk patients, serious candidates for implants and bypass surgery, which only managed to avoid surgery with pomegranate juice.

But the researcher Ephraim Lansky, chief of the Division of Research Rimonest in the Technological Institute of Israel, points out that the juice, pulp and peel of the pomegranate are carriers of properties that besides promoting the reduction of cholesterol, slows the aging process and perhaps could lead to cures for cancer and AIDS. PhD in psychology and biology, the scientist also has expertise in acupuncture and homeopathy. Lansky is interested not only because of pomegranate juice, but also by the fruit fully. He is currently investing in the production of a concentrated juice to help lower cholesterol levels. In your clinical homeopathic recipe pomegranate juice in cases of fever and in postmenopausal women, prevention of heart disease and osteoporosis. Soon, he will also launch new line of cosmetics - anti-aging creams, massage oils and masks - using estrogen extracted from the bark of the pomegranate.

Dr. Lansky believes the pomegranate is large pharmaceutical project, with numerous possibilities, including the cure of prostate cancer, breast cancer, leukemia, herpes and even AIDS. According to the scholar, the application of wine and oil seed in the cells of certain cancers stops playback of the same, preventing the disease from spreading. Are still research, but the current results are encouraging.

Medicinal Uses

Ancient medicine, the use of pomegranate is scientifically established. Already proven the efficacy of pomegranate as a natural antibiotic. In the case of bacterial tonsillitis, pharyngitis and viral inflammation of the gums using gargling with cooking induces remission of infection and fever also in just 24 hours.

The pomegranate also produces good results in case of leucorrhoea (vaginal discharge). To this end are specified sitz baths with infusion of the bark, cases regress rapidly after three applications.

Flowers of pomegranate are used as infusions against diarrhea. The root bark and fruit are used as anthelmintic (dewormer) that is effective against common worms and against intestinal tapeworms (Taenia solium).

An infusion made with pomegranate seeds macerated is useful for the treatment of conjunctivitis and pomegranate leaf tea is useful for treating other diseases of the eyes. For wound healing, dry powder of the bark of the pomegranate is widely used.

IMPORTANT:

We must be cautious with the risks of poisoning by overdose of pomegranate. In infusions should not be consumed more than ? of the shell. Its action is

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