DADIMA (POMEGRANATE) - Punica granatum, Lythraceae

Medical uses:

1. Intrinsic Hemorrhage: Two teaspoonful of dadima (pomegranate)flowers mixed with goatʼs milk and sugar twice daily is beneficial.

2. Piles: Dry the peel of a sweet pomegranate and make a fine powder. Take five grams of this powder twice a day regularly with butter milk inorder to get the relief from piles.

3. Acne: Water boiled with pomegranate fruit peels should be used to wash the face for Acne. Powdered pomegranate skin should be combined with rose water or lemon juice and applied like a face pack for calming pimples, boils, acne as well as for eliminating white heads and black heads. 

4. Diarrhea: 3 grms of fruit peel powder along with butter milk with one teaspoonful cumin 

seeds powder twice a day is beneficial in diarrhea especially Irritable bowel syndrome.

5.Anaemia and Intestinal worms: Eat 150 gms of pomegranate seeds on an empty stomach every morning.