Pomegranate and its benefits

Of course you know that if you look at the pictures in this post, like flowers and fruit, these are two things that cannot be separated because when the fruit will grow, the first thing out is flowers.

Likewise with one of these plants called pomegranates. This pomegranate has been famous for thousands of years, according to the history of the origin of this fruit comes from the land of Persia or in the Arabian hemisphere. Then over time, the pomegranate is spread all over the world.

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🍈Definition #pomegranates

In Indonesian national language, this fruit is referred to as Delima while in English it is referred to as Pomegranate and if in Aceh the fruit is known as Buah Glima then scientifically referred to as Punica #Granatum. As has been mentioned in the explanation above that this plant is known for having many properties for the health or healing of human diseases.

This herbal plant is very easy to grow anywhere because of its extraordinary principal resilience to nearly equal to one of the coconut tree plants. In general, it is mostly encountered or found in the lowlands to below 1000 Mdpl (above sea level) as you often encounter in residential areas. In personal experience and you can see in the uploaded picture that this pomegranate plant can thrive on loose soil media and does not contain much water, especially on moist soil, this plant will flourish easily.

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🍈 Its characteristics

Speaking of his character, of course he also has the same character as other plants, if there are differences, the difference is only slightly. When the plant has had an age of fertilization then the first out at the end of the stem or branches are red flowers and then within a few days naturally the red flowers will fall out and behind them come out small fruit and within 10 or 12 days will be the fruit that normal as you see in the picture.

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If you see a tree, you will get a woody tree trunk that has many branches on each branch with the shape spreads up and to the side. While the leaves are oval or lanceolate-like oval with small sizes covering each branch kecik. Then on the stems grow small spines and sharp but blunt tip

1-9 cm long and 0.5-0.25 cm wide and green

While the flowers stay out at the end of the branch or in the upper armpit and color red, if it is 2-3 days old, but in the initial discharge green, white this will always change when entering the stages of fertilization.

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🍈 Taste and benefits

This herbal plant has fruit with a sweet taste when it is ripe but if it is young it tastes chewy and a little bitter. This pomegranate has a different grain content than other plants, inside the fruit has small seeds with a sweet dressing.

In addition to its sweet taste it also has a beautiful flower shape and a tree that can be formed so that many people cultivate it which is made as an herbal or ornamental plant.

Enthusiastic people cultivate it or plant it because in addition to being beautiful it also has fruits and flowers that greatly benefit the human body on bodily health.

So don't be surprised if you visit the Aceh region you will see every house growing this plant both in front of and behind someone's house.

The results of research experts find in the content of this plant a lot of useful substances, but the famous is,

• Substance #Tanin
• #Antioxidant

So that the content of certain substances is very useful for healing some diseases that are suffered by humans as contained in the table below.

1	Prevent and overcome cancer
2	Helps reduce blood cholesterol levels
3	Helps reduce blood pressure and protect the heart
4	Maintaining quality of life for patients suffering from kidney disease and attacks of high blood pressure and cholesterol
5	Reducing fever in children
6	Overcome inner heat
7	and several other internal diseases
Source	Health experts in the 2008 health book

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Thus a brief description of this herbal plant or referred to as Pomegranate, hopefully what has been explained in this post is useful for us all. Thank you very much.