Pomegranate flower

Pomegranate flower

(records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

[source] the petals of pomegranate or double petaled pomegranate.

[plant morphology] 1

Deciduous shrubs or small trees, about 6 m high. Branchlets round or slightly ribbed, with spiny ends, smooth and glabrous. Leaves opposite or clustered on short branches with short petioles; leaves oblong, obovate to oblong, 2-3 cm long, 1.5 cm wide, apex obtuse, glabrous, glossy. Flowers white, ca. 3 cm in diam. Berry subglobose, ca. 10 cm in diam., brownish yellow to red, septate. The seeds are numerous, enclosed in red or reddish fruit sac. The flowering period is from May to June.

② Double white pomegranate

The shape of this species is the same as that of pomegranate except for double petals.

The roots of the above two plants (Punica granatum L.) are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] when the flowers are in full bloom from May to June, they are picked and dried.

[herbal medicine] the dried petals are mostly wrinkled and yellow or brownish yellow. After soaking in warm water, the whole body is oval, with blunt and round top, slightly narrow base and broken edge. From the base of petal, the main veins are thick and the lateral veins are small. All of them are brown. Soft, thin and slightly transparent. It is better to have yellow and white color and slight fragrance.

Produced in Sichuan.

[processing] clean impurities and use them raw or fried black.

[nature and taste] sour and sweet, flat.

① Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "warm in nature, sweet and sour in taste, slightly astringent, non-toxic. "

② "Fujian Chinese herbal medicine": "sweet slightly bitter, flat. "

[function indications] hemostasis, astringent bowel. For hemoptysis, hematemesis, hematemesis, hematochezia and dysentery.

① Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "dispersing stasis. It is used to treat lung fatigue, hematemesis and hematemesis. "

② Fujian Chinese herbal medicine: "strengthening intestines to stop bleeding. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-3 yuan (fresh 0.5-1 Liang). External use: grind powder and blow nose.

[prescription selection] ① for hemoptysis, hematemesis and hematochezia: 15-20 pomegranate flowers, decoction. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

② Cure long dysentery: white pomegranate cost three to five money. Take it in water. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)