- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Punicaceae
- English Names
- Pomegranate tree
- Carthaginian apple tree
- Natural Habitat
- North-Western India
- cultivated in the Mediterranean countries and subtropical countries throughout the world
- Part(s) Used
- Cortex arboris Granati
- Cortex radicis Granati
- Cortex fructus Granati
- Flores Granati = Flores Balaustii
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- Constituent(s)
- treebark
- rootbark: pelletierine (= punicine)
- isopelletierine
- pseudopelletierine (= granatonine = pseudopunicine)
- methylisopelletierine
- granatin (bitter principle)
- tannin
- resin
- sugar
- punico-tannic acid
- starch; fruitpeel: tannin
- mucilage
- resin
- sugar; flower: tannin; ripe fruit: invert-sugar
- enzyme
- malic acid
- citric acid
- Action
- treebark
- rootbark; vermifuge
- taeniacide; fruit peel: astringent (used in chronic dysentery and diarrhoea)
- vermifuge
- taenicide; flower: astringent. The flower yields a good red dye; fruit: astringent
- refrigerant. P. S. Blindness and other by-effects can be the result of too large and too frequent doses!
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