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==Uses==
{{Uses|Ulcers}}, {{Uses|Urinary infections}}}, {{Uses|Skin disorders}}, {{Uses|Digestive disorders}}, {{Uses|Arthritis}}, {{Uses|Diarrhea}}, {{Uses|Bloating}}
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==Parts Used==
{{Parts Used|Fruits}}, {{Parts Used|Seeds}}
==Chemical Composition==
Pomegranate fruit arils contain huge amounts of organic acids, sugars, minerals, vitamins, and polyphenols that show antioxidant effect. Moreover, flavonoids are chief polyphenols of fruit, condensed tannins and hydrolysable tannins. Hydrolyzable tannins including ellagitannins and gallotannins consist of the common constituents present in pomegranate, and punicalagin is the major hydrolyzable tannin present in pomegranates. The juice of arils consist of water, sugars such as glucose, sucrose, and fructose, 1.5% pectin, organic acids including citric, malic, tartaric, succinic, fumaric and ascorbic acid.
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==Common names==
{{Common names|kn=daadima, daalimbe, dadimbe|ml=dadimam, matalam, matalam-cheti, matalanarakam, urumampazham|sa=dadima, raktabija, raktabija, lohithapushpa|ta=madalai-p-pazham, maathulai, maathulam|te=daadimba, daalimba chettu, daalimma, daanimma, dadima|hi=anar|en=pomegranate}}
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==Properties==
Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.
===Dravya===
===Rasa===
Madhura (Sweet), Amla (Sour), Kashaya (Astringent)
===Guna===
Laghu (Light), Snigdha (Unctuous)
===Veerya===
Anushna (Neither hot nor cold)
===Vipaka===
Madhura (Sweet), Amla (Sour)
===Karma===
Vata, Pitta, Kapha
===Prabhava===
==Habit==
{{Habit|Shrub or small tree}}
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Simple|Opposite|Leaves glabrous, lustrous, 19-35(-50) x 8-12 (-15) mm, oblong-lanceolate to obovate or elliptic, subpetiolate, entire, apex sub-actue to obtuse. }}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Bisexual|axillary or terminal|Scarlet red|Many| Flowers scarlet red or white, conspicuous, 3 cm or more in length. Calyx 20-35 mm long, indented slightly above the middle, reddish, somewhat succulent; lobes 5-7,c. 8 mm long, triangular. Petals and stamens inserted at the throat of the calyx. Petals 16-20 x 10-12 mm, broadly obovate, wrinkled, alternating with the sepal lobes. Filaments c. 7 mm long, multiseriate, persistent. Ovary subglobose; style thick, c. 1 cm long, reddish; stigma simple; slightly bilobed. }}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|A berry|2-8 cm across|partitioned by thin leathery yellow septa; the rind thick and coriaceous.|Seeds red or pink, c. 10 mm long, angular, testa thick, fleshy and juicy|}}
===Other features===
==List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used==
==Where to get the saplings==
==Mode of Propagation==
{{Propagation|Seeds}}, {{Propagation|Cuttings}}.
==How to plant/cultivate==
===Season to grow===
===Soil type===
===Propagation===
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
{{Commonly seen|Tropical area}}, {{Commonly seen|Sub Tropical area}}, {{Commonly seen|Desert area}}.
==Photo Gallery==
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File:Granadas - Pomegranates.jpg
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==References==
<references>
<ref name="Chemical Composition">Active Constituents of Pomegranates (Punica granatum) as Potential Candidates in the Management of Health through Modulation of Biological Activities, Arshad Husain Rahmani, Mohamed Ali Alsahli, Saleh Abdulrahman Almatroodi, PHCOG J, VOL 9, ISSUE 5, SEP-OCT, 2017
"Chemical Composition"]</ref>
<ref name="Uses">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21623786 "Uses"]</ref>
<ref name="Leaf">[http://FLOWERING PLANTS OF KERALA VER.2, N. Sasidharan "BOTANIC DESCRIPTION"]</ref>
<ref name="Common names">[http://envis.frlht.org/bot_search "Vernacular names"]</ref>
</references>
==External Links==
* https://www.planetayurveda.com/library/pomegranate-punica-granatum
* https://easyayurveda.com/2011/11/04/pomegranate-fruit-benefits-anti-oxidants-plus-tridosha-balancing-ayurveda-details/
* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5730995/
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