What are the effects and effects of pomegranate? Can pregnant women eat it? What month is the mature season?

Autumn is coming soon, and it is the season to eat pomegranates again. Chinese traditional culture regards pomegranate as the mascot and the symbol of many children and blessings. Do you know anything about the efficacy and function of pomegranate? Can pregnant women also eat pomegranate?

I. the efficacy and function of pomegranate

1. Pomegranate juice contains a variety of amino acids and trace elements, which help digestion, anti-gastric ulcer, soften blood vessels, reduce blood lipids and blood sugar, lower cholesterol and other functions. Can prevent coronary heart disease, hypertension, can achieve stomach refreshing, increase appetite, longevity talk to prolong the effect, for those who drink too much, anti-alcohol has a strange effect.

2. Pomegranate is a treasure all over the body, and the peel, root and flower can be used as medicine. The pericarp contains malic acid, tannin, alkaloid and other ingredients. According to relevant experiments, pomegranate peel has obvious bacteriostatic and convergence functions, can converge intestinal mucosa and reduce intestinal mucous secretion, so it can effectively treat diarrhea, dysentery and other diseases. it has a good inhibitory effect on dysentery bacilli and Escherichia coli. In addition, the pomegranate peel contains alkaline substances, which has the effect of deworming; the pomegranate flower has the function of hemostasis, and the pomegranate flower has the effect of soaking and washing the eyes.

3, pomegranate warm, sweet and sour astringent taste, enter the lung, kidney, large intestine meridian; with Shengjin to quench thirst, converge solid astringent, antidiarrheal and hemostatic effect; main treatment of Jin deficiency, dry mouth, irritation and thirst, long diarrhea, chronic dysentery, hematochezia, metrorrhagia and other diseases.

Can pregnant women eat pomegranate?

Drinking more pomegranate juice during pregnancy can reduce the risk of impaired brain development in the fetus. And can effectively improve the symptoms of loss of appetite, reduce the vomiting pain of pregnant women, and increase nutrition absorption. Therefore, it is not only possible for pregnant women to eat pomegranate, but also good for themselves and the fetus.

1. Relieve the symptoms of vomiting and nausea. During pregnancy, many pregnant women will have vomiting, nausea and other phenomena, when eating pomegranate can effectively alleviate these symptoms.

2. Relieve the fatigue during pregnancy. Pregnant women eat some pomegranate or drink pomegranate juice during pregnancy, which can also relieve symptoms such as shoulder pain and eye fatigue during pregnancy.

3. Reduce the probability of fetal brain damage. Studies have found that drinking pomegranate juice during pregnancy can help reduce the risk of impaired fetal development and promote the normal development of the fetal brain.

Food taboos of pomegranate

1. Suitable for patients with dry mouth, diarrhea and tonsillitis

2, not suitable for constipation, urethritis, diabetes, excess heat stagnation.

3. Food: pomegranate should not be eaten with tomatoes, crabs, watermelons and potatoes. If taken at the same time as potatoes, you can use leek pickled water to drink detoxification.

IV. Pomegranate ripening season

The flowering period of pomegranate is from May to June and the fruit period of pomegranate is from September to October. When ripe, it becomes a large, multi-locular, many-seeded berry with many seeds per chamber; the outer seed coat is fleshy, bright red, light red or white, succulent, sweet and sour, that is, the edible part; the inner seed coat is horny, and some degenerate and soften, that is, soft-seed pomegranate.

Pomegranate is born on a mountain at an altitude of 300-1000 meters. Like a warm and sunny environment, resistant to drought and cold, but also resistant to barren, impatient, non-waterlogging and shade. The requirement of soil is not strict, but it is suitable to be cultivated with sandy soil with good drainage. The moisture content of pomegranate in the early stage is not high, the seed is slightly hard, the moisture in the later stage is less, the sugar content is a little more, the seed is slightly softer, but if the pomegranate is preserved properly, it is still very resistant to storage, and you can eat pomegranate during the Spring Festival.