How to boil water with fresh pomegranate peel

Many people will directly throw away fresh pomegranate peels. In fact, it is a very good Chinese medicinal material. If you dry it and boil it in water to drink, it can have a very good health effect on your body, so it has become a tonic. But you must remember that if you want to use fresh pomegranate peels to boil water, you must pay attention to the heat. You must use a slow fire to simmer it, so that the effect will be better.

1. Pomegranate peel

"Leigong Paozhi Lun" says: "If you use pomegranate shells, regardless of whether they are dry or wet, soak them in starch water overnight and strain them out in the morning." "Shenghui Fang" says: "Peel them." "File them." "Mash them." Now, take the original medicinal material, remove impurities, remove the remaining pulp and seeds, wash them, cut them into pieces, and dry them.

2. Stir-fried pomegranate peel

"Sheng Hui Fang" says "Fry until charred." "Slightly stir-fry." Now, take the clean pomegranate peel pieces, put them in a hot pan, heat over low heat and stir-fry until the color is slightly darker, then sift out the ash.

3. Pomegranate peel charcoal

"Qian Jin Yi Fang": "Burn into ash." "De Pei Materia Medica": "Burn into charcoal to preserve its nature." Currently, take pieces of pomegranate peel, put them in a hot pot, heat them over high heat, and stir-fry until the surface is charred black and the inside is brown. Spray an appropriate amount of water, wait until sparks are gone, and take out to cool thoroughly. Store in a dry container in a ventilated and dry place, away from moisture. Pomegranate peel charcoal prevents re-ignition.

The peel contains 10.4% tannin, 0.8% wax, 4.5% tree fat, 1.8% mannitol, 0.6% mucilage, 4.0% gallic acid, 4.0% malic acid, pectin and calcium oxalate, 3.2% gum, 1.0% inulin and 2.7% non-crystalline sugar. From tannins, we can obtain: Punica granatum A, Punica granatum B, Punica granatum tannin, 2,3-O-digalloyl Punica granatum tannin.

The peel also contains oleic acid, isoquercetin, cyanidin-3-glucoside, cyanidin-3,5-diglucoside, cyanidin-3-glucoside, and cyanidin-3,5-diglucoside. Tetragallic acid was also isolated from the methanol extract of the peel, which has the activity of inhibiting carbonic acid dehydrogenase.

The fruit peel, stem bark and bark all contain biological alkaloids, which have been separated: punica pine, isopunica pine, pseudopunica pine, N-methylisopunica pine, etc. The tannins contained in the bark were also isolated: pomegranate peel tannin, 2,3-O-digalloyl pomegranate peel tannin, 2-O-galloyl-4, and digalloyl-D-glucose, 2,3-hexahydroxybiphenyldiformyl-D-glucose, long A, B, C, D, pomegranate peel gluconic acid, casuarina tannin, and casuarina tannin.