Pomegranate peel is the dried peel of pomegranate belonging to pomegranate family. It is cultivated in both north and south of China, especially in Jiangsu and Henan. Pomegranate skin is warm and sour, and is often used for chronic diarrhea, chronic dysentery, bloody stool, proctoptosis, metrorrhagia, leukorrhagia, and abdominal pain caused by insect accumulation.

Pomegranate is full of treasures, and pomegranate peel has many functions. Let's list them one by one.

1, treating diarrhea and hemorrhoids.

Pomegranate peel has obvious bacteriostatic and astringent functions, can make intestinal mucosa converge, and has a good inhibitory effect on Shigella dysenteriae and Escherichia coli, so it can treat diarrhea well. Pomegranate can be used with drugs such as nutmeg. In addition, pomegranate peel can also treat hematochezia, and can be used with Sanguisorba officinalis, Sophora japonica and other drugs.

2, pomegranate peel can be used for gynecological hemostasis.

Pomegranate peel can stop bleeding, treat metrorrhagia and bleeding during pregnancy, and is a good gynecological medicine. It is often used in combination with Chinese angelica, donkey-hide gelatin and wormwood charcoal.

3. Pomegranate peel also has insecticidal effect.

It can be used to treat abdominal pain caused by insect accumulation, and is often used in combination with drugs such as betel nut and gentleman. Both fresh pomegranate peel and pomegranate peel decoction contain a lot of tannins, which can turn alkaloids into insoluble and hard-to-absorb compounds, so that they can fully play a role in intestinal parasites and keep their muscles in a state of continuous contraction, so they have an anthelmintic effect.

4. Pomegranate skin can promote wound healing.

Pomegranate peel contains tannic phenolic compounds, which can precipitate protein on the wound surface, thus preventing the infection and irritation of the wound and promoting the healing of the wound. At the same time, pomegranate peel has inhibitory effect on different skin fungi.

5, pomegranate peel can cure colds and prevent viruses.

Pomegranate peel decoction has broad-spectrum antibacterial effect, and has obvious inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic streptococcus, Vibrio cholerae and Shigella dysenteriae. Pomegranate peel decoction can also inhibit influenza virus.

Don't throw pomegranate peel away after eating. Boiling water or making tea are good health products.