Punica granatum L.
- Family: Lythraceae
- Vernacular names: Mathalam, മാതളം (Malayalam), pomegranate (English), Dadima (Sanskrit), Anar (Hindi), Mdalai (Tamil)
- Distribution: Central and West Asia, widely cultivated in East Himalaya, South Europe and Asia
- Description: Straggling shrubs. Leaves simple, glabrous, oblong-lanceolate to obovate or elliptic. Flowers scarlet-red or white. Fruit globose, sometimes persistent, pale red to scarlet, or brownish; seeds red or pink.
- Habit: Shrub
- Habitat: Cultivated
- Flowering & Fruiting: March-November
- Parts used: Bark and fruit
- Properties & Uses: Unripe fruits are good appetizer and tonic; rind of the fruit is useful in the treatment of diarrhea and chronic dysentery. Decoction of the rind is anthelmintic. A decoction of the dried fruit rind is drunk for the relief of stomachache and dysentery, while an infusion of the same material is taken for colitis. Fruit juice is cooling; cures dyspepsia. Seeds are considered stomachic and the pulp is cardiac tonic. Stem bark is astringent; strengthens gums; used in piles and colic. Root bark is very astringent; decoction is used specifically for tapeworm.
- Systems of Medicines: Ayurveda, Folk, Unani, Homeo,
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