What are the benefits of pomegranate peel, what ailments treat and how to brew a folk remedy?
Pomegranate is a storehouse of vitamins, minerals, micro and macro elements. Pomegranate peel possesses not less useful properties; with proper preparation, it can be beneficial for both adults and children. How to properly prepare and apply a beautiful berry will be discussed in the article below.
You can read in the article how to brew pomegranate peels in order to make a useful decoction of skins, as well as what the drink helps from and what benefits and harm it can bring in itself.
What is useful pomegranate peel?
- Beneficial effect on the work of the entire cardiovascular system. All this is possible due to the large number of antioxidants that destroy cholesterol molecules in the body.
- Removal of toxins. Antioxidants are used again. They are responsible for quick and painless detoxification. Cleansing primarily concerns the liver.
- Supports oral hygiene. Pomegranate peel extract is often a component of pastes and mouth rinses. However, you can not purchase expensive funds, but cook them yourself.
- Against cough and sore throat. In combination with ginger, honey or even salt, the pomegranate peel helps to forget about a sore throat.
- Reduces the manifestation of hemorrhoids.
- Reduces the effect of a hangover.
Pomegranate peels have the following cosmetic properties:
- Moisturizing the skin. Ellagic acid will help in this, which prevents the skin from drying out.
- Sun protection.
- Fighting age-related changes.Pomegranate peel in combination with oil from it also contribute to the active production of procollagen, which protects the skin from premature aging.
- For the beauty of hair. The peel prevents hair loss and the formation of dandruff.
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Chemical composition
What is in the peel of the fruit? (All data will be indicated per 100 grams of product).
- Tannins (their amount ranges from 25-28%).
- Coloring matter.
- Micro and macro elements:
- Potassium - 145 mg;
- Calcium - 9 mg;
- Magnesium - 3 mg;
- Iron - 0.2 mg;
- Copper - 156 mcg;
- Aluminum - 0.13 mg;
- Sulfur;
- Sodium - 4 mg;
- Iodine - 4 mg;
- Phosphorus - 7 mg;
- Boron - 56.7 mcg.
- Ursolic acid, alkaloids, polyphenols, antioxidants.
- Vitamins of group B (0.62 mg), E (0.6 mg), PP (0.29 mg), C.
Can it hurt?
Pomegranate peel cannot cause particular harm.. However, there are some restrictions on its use. It is better to refuse the use of pomegranate peels for people suffering from allergies, as well as kidney and liver diseases. Still need to be careful for those people who are tormented by constipation. In a lower dosage, you need to prepare funds for pregnant and lactating mothers.
No side effects if all dosages are observed.
It is worth remembering that pomegranate peels contain 5% alkaloids - poisonous organic substances that tend to accumulate in the body, causing nausea, dizziness, weakness, cramps, and also decreased vision.Indications for use
Pomegranate peels help in the following cases.:
- bowel problems;
- diseases of the heart system;
- throat diseases (in particular, tonsillitis);
- lack of vitamin C;
- high level of toxicity in the body.
Material preparation
Some stores sell ready-made pomegranate peels. However, they cost a lot, in addition, they will have to be purchased in whole lots. therefore best to peel yourself. Instructions for the preparation of crusts.
- Fruit selection. They should be fresh, of medium size, the shade should be even, without any white spots, the skin color is rich red.
- The fruit needs to be washed, thoroughly wiped with a towel. Remove the seeds from the pomegranate. The white part of the peel must be removed - it does not carry any benefit in itself.
- After this, crust cut into small pieces, spread it on a sheet of paper with a thin layer.
Be sure to cover the pieces with gauze so that insects do not fly into the workpieces.
- Once the crusts have dried (it will take 2-3 days), they are placed in a sealed package so that they do not get moisture, which will negate all the cooking efforts.
- Before cooking, crusts are crushed manually or using a blender.
The crown (tails) from the pomegranate should not be used.
Recipes: how to brew for the treatment of various diseases?
From worms
Cooking method:
- 50 grams of crusts are poured into 0.5 liters of boiling water and insisted for 6 hours.
- After this, the infusion is still boiled until the volume of liquid is halved.
- Next, the infusion cools.
Give the patient to drink the whole glass at once, and after 30 minutes you need to use a laxative. For 3 hours after use, you can neither drink nor eat.
After 4 hours, the patient needs to be given an enema to remove the decay products of worms, which are toxic in composition.
Just a few uses of the product in order to completely get rid of parasites in the body.
We offer you to watch a video about the use of pomegranate peels for infection with worms:
With diseases of the stomach
To normalize his work
It is necessary to take:
- dried ginger;
- pomegranate peels;
- peppermint;
- leaf tea.
- Take 10 grams of crusts and pour a glass of water, the temperature of which has reached 95 degrees (you need to remove water from the fire as soon as it starts to boil).
- The tool is insisted for half an hour.
- Then it needs to be filtered.
- Allow to cool.
- 0.5 cups of dry peel pour a glass of boiling water and insist for half an hour.
- After tincture should cool.
- Then, 10 grams of caraway seeds and 100 ml of kefir are poured into the prepared broth (fat does not matter, quality is the main thing).
- All components are whipped in a blender. After that, a pinch of salt is poured into the mix to taste.
- Pound crushed crusts from two pomegranates with one liter of boiling water and cook for three minutes.
- Cool the tincture.
- 80 grams of crusts pour 200 ml of boiling water.
- Boil them in a steam bath for another third of an hour.
- After cooking, allow the broth to cool.
- Dilute it with another glass of water.
- Pomegranate peels are crushed to a powder state, which is sprinkled with a burn.
- Then the wound is wrapped with gauze.
- The peel of one pomegranate is poured with 100 ml of 4% alcohol.
- Infused for seven days.
- After that, the edges of the wound are processed without affecting its center.
- 0.5 teaspoon of crusts are poured in a glass of boiling water.
- Then cook for a third of an hour.
- The broth cools down.
- Then they gargle.
- 20 grams of dried ginger.
- 5 mint and lemon leaves each.
- Lemon slice.
- 20 grams of honey.
- 40 g pomegranate peels.
- Leaflets of black currant and wild strawberry.
All components are poured with boiling water and infused for half an hour.
After cooking, the broth can be drunk as regular tea. For added flavor, honey or lemon can be added.
We suggest watching a video on how a decoction of pomegranate peels helps in the treatment of stomach diseases:
If there is a stomach ulcer and duodenal ulcer
How to prepare a pomegranate decoction from crusts to treat the intestines and stomach? To do this, you need:
It should be noted that use tincture as a medical preparation for a week (a glass a day).
Dosage: 5 ml per day, 40 ml 30 minutes before a meal. It is impossible to eat earlier than in half an hour, since the remedy does not have time to provide proper assistance.
You can use as a medicine only that tincture that costs ready no longer than 12 hours.With dysbiosis
Cooking method:
You need to take the medicine three times a day for a quarter cup. The course of treatment with pomegranate decoction - one week.
If the broth is prepared for children, in this case, the remedy is used in one fifth of a glass.
For hair
Following a decoction will help make hair more shiny and get rid of dandruff.
How to cook and apply?
Rinse hair after each wash. And after a week there will be practically no dandruff, and the hair will become more shiny.
Pomegranate can not only relieve dandruff from the head, but even slightly change the tone of the hair. However, for this, not the peel is used, but the seeds of the fetus themselves.From stomatitis
Cooking method:
How to apply? With this tool, rinse the oral cavity until the lesion of the oral mucosa is gone. This usually takes up to ten days.
From burns and wounds
It is necessary to change the powder daily until complete healing.
After the dressing is applied within a week, the burn will need to be treated with tincture.
Preparing the tool as follows:
A simple wound is also sprinkled with crust powder. The procedure is carried out daily..
You can also make lotions. To do this, 200 grams of crusts are boiled in 500 ml of water, and after that the cotton pad is moistened in a decoction, the wound is rubbed with it.
From sore throat
Cooking method:
Typically, such procedures are carried out throughout the week. Gargle several times a day.
From rhinitis
For the treatment of a common cold, a folk remedy requires red fruit peels, willow and oak bark. The components are poured with a glass of boiling water and infused for a third of an hour.
A quarter cup is taken three times a day before meals.
Tea to strengthen the immune system
What to take?
All components (except honey and lemon) are poured with boiling water and infused for 7 minutes. After that honey and lemon can be added to the broth - tea is ready to drink.
After reading this article, you will not only enjoy the taste of pomegranate, but also apply its peel for medicinal purposes.
Useful video
We suggest watching a video on how to prepare a decoction of pomegranate peels: