Benefits of Pomegranate Flower and Its Oil

One of the miraculous fruits is the pomegranate; it is a source of healing for many of our organs. To best benefit from the healing properties of pomegranate, you should eat the fruit fresh or drink its freshly squeezed juice.

The pomegranate flower has a constipating and drying power. Sprinkling its powder on wounds and abscesses, and boiling the pomegranate flower and gargling with its water; heals loose teeth and unhealthy gums. The pomegranate peel is also a medicine in itself; its main task is to cleanse worms and parasites from the body. Pomegranate flower (gülnar) heals intestinal wounds and inflammations; if the flower poultice is applied to the neck in cases of neck stiffness, it is healing. When its peel is brewed like tea and drunk, it is very beneficial against stomach and intestinal diseases, diarrhea, and dysentery.

Benefits of Pomegranate

• Strengthens the heart; pomegranate juice eliminates liver weakness, relieves stomach inflammation and pain.
• Pomegranate seeds are cell regenerators. Because its antioxidant value and vitamin C are high, it prevents damage from free radicals; it is known as the fruit of youth and health.
• 15% of the pomegranate fruit is carbohydrates, 0.8% is protein; it is rich in B1, B2 vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, and iron.
• When eaten with its inner membranes, it heals stomach ulcers.
• It is beneficial against seasickness.
• It is protective against kidney and liver diseases.
• Used in the treatment of high blood pressure; it relieves heat.
• It is good for diabetes and hives; pomegranate molasses is recommended for diabetics.
• It is beneficial in heart pains and in the treatment of hemorrhoids.
• When pomegranate juice is applied to joints and limbs with rheumatic pain, it shows pain-relieving effects.
• Pomegranate sherbet should be drunk against fainting; sweet pomegranate juice is healing against hoarseness and pneumonia.
• The sherbet prepared with pomegranate juice and sugar is diuretic.

The ready-made pomegranate juices sold on supermarket shelves are far from providing these benefits. Due to the pasteurization process and storage in packaging, significant losses occur in the nutritional value of the fruit.

Content of Pomegranate Seed Oil

The fatty acid composition of 100% pomegranate seed oil obtained by cold press method without heat treatment: