Pomegranate is a hot fruit.

Heat fruits are fruits with warm and hot nature. For example, jujube, hawthorn, cherry, pomegranate, lychee, green fruit, durian, papaya, mandarin, white fruit and so on belong to warm and hot fruits.

Pomegranate is warm, sweet, sour and astringent, into the lungs, kidneys, large intestine meridian; with the thirst, astringent astringent, diarrhea and blood effect. Pomegranate can be said to be the whole body is a treasure, peel, roots, flowers can be used as medicine. Its rind contains malic acid, tannin, alkaloids and other components.

According to relevant experiments, pomegranate skin has obvious antibacterial and astringent function, can make the intestinal mucosa astringent, so that the intestinal mucosal secretion is reduced, so it can effectively treat diarrhea, dysentery and other diseases, dysentery bacillus, Escherichia coli has a better inhibitory effect. In addition, the pomegranate rind contains alkaline substances, insect repellent effect; pomegranate flowers have hemostatic function, and pomegranate flowers soak water to wash the eyes, there is a brightening effect.

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People who should not eat pomegranate:

1, patients with gastritis and diarrhea at the beginning of the best not to eat;

2, pomegranate eaten too much will be on fire, and will make the teeth blackened, you should rinse out your mouth in a timely manner after eating;

3, pomegranate sugar and astringent, colds and acute inflammation, constipated patients. To eat with caution, diabetic patients should be prohibited;

4, children are best to eat less pomegranate, otherwise it is easy to cause fever and phlegm, and easy to aggravate acute bronchitis, coughing and phlegm and other symptoms.

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