Can boiling water with pomegranate peels cure diarrhea in babies?

Pomegranate tastes sour and sweet, while boiled water with pomegranate peel tastes sour and astringent, which tastes very bad. However, boiled water with pomegranate peel has certain medicinal value, especially in the treatment of infant diarrhea. On the one hand, this treatment method has relatively few side effects and is good for the child's gastrointestinal conditioning. It is very effective in treating some diseases caused by Shigella dysenteriae and Salmonella typhi.

Can boiled pomegranate peels cure diarrhea?

Boiling pomegranate peel in water can treat some diseases, such as diarrhea, dysentery, etc. Because pomegranate peel contains radiculone, it has inhibitory effects on typhoid bacillus and dysentery bacillus. Pomegranate peel can also astringe the intestinal mucosa and reduce secretions, so it can effectively treat diarrhea, dysentery and other diseases.

The specific method of taking pomegranate peel boiled water to treat diarrhea: take 15 grams of pomegranate peel and boil it in water, drink 10-20 ml each time, 3-4 times a day, 7-10 days as a course of treatment.

Pomegranate peel is the peel of the pomegranate, a deciduous shrub or small tree of the Punica granatum family. It tastes sour and astringent, is warm in nature, and enters the stomach and large intestine meridians. It has the effects of astringing the intestines, stopping diarrhea, killing insects, and stopping bleeding. Pomegranate peel has the effects of astringing the intestines, stopping nocturnal emission, stopping bleeding and leucorrhea, killing insects and healing sores. It is mainly used to treat long-term diarrhea and dysentery, spermatorrhea, intestinal bleeding, metrorrhagia and leukorrhea, abdominal pain caused by worms, scabies, sores and burns.

For patients with dysentery with red and white discharge, which occurs several times day and night without decreasing, pomegranate peel can be used in combination with forged dragon bone; for patients with intestinal wind and bleeding due to heat, pomegranate peel can be used in combination with Platycladus orientalis leaves; for patients with abdominal pain caused by intestinal roundworms and red worms, pomegranate peel can be used in combination with betel nut.

Medicinal value of pomegranate peel: Pomegranate peel has inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Vibrio cholerae, Shigella dysenteriae, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and various pathogenic fungi. Clinical reports show that pomegranate peel decoction has achieved significant results in the treatment of bacterial dysentery.

Pomegranate peel contains malic acid, tannins, alkali and other ingredients. Pomegranate peel has obvious antibacterial and astringent functions. It can astringe the intestinal mucosa and reduce the secretion of intestinal mucus. Therefore, it can effectively treat diarrhea, dysentery and other diseases, and has a good inhibitory effect on Shigella dysenteriae and Escherichia coli.

Other benefits of pomegranate peel

1. To treat psoriasis : Dip a little alum powder in fresh pomegranate peel and rub it on the affected area 3 times a day. Alternatively, use 1 part of pomegranate peel (fried into charcoal and then ground into fine powder), add 3 parts of sesame oil, mix into a paste, and apply to the affected area. Take twice a day, multiple times continuously is effective.

2. Treatment of burns and scalds : Take 500 grams of pomegranate peel, wash it clean, add 500 ml of water, simmer until only 250 ml is left, filter and pour into a bottle for later use. According to the size of the burn surface, soak 1 square centimeter gauze pieces in the medicine solution and apply them to the affected area piece by piece until the gauze pieces fall off by themselves when they are healed. Generally, one application of the medicine can cure the disease.

3. To treat suppurative otitis media : Take 15 grams of pomegranate peel, fry it until it is charred, then grind it into fine powder and set aside. First, wipe the affected ear with a cotton swab dipped in hydrogen peroxide several times until no white foam appears. Then wipe the affected ear clean with a cotton swab and blow the powder into the affected ear with a blowpipe. Apply the medicine once every other day, and 3 times constitute a course of treatment.