Pomegranate on service of beauty

Pomegranate - Punica granatum L. – subtropical, listopadny, the fruit-tree, is more rare a bush from family of garnet. A root at a plant angular, branched. The tree of pomegranate grows in height to 10 meters. Escapes often are prickly.

Leaves large up to 7-6 cm in length and up to 2 cm in width on scapes. Kuvshinoobrazny flowers of pomegranate tie fruits, and those that are similar to hand bells – barren flowers. And those, and that, as a rule, red color, are located on the ends of escapes and in bosoms of leaves.

Blossoming at pomegranate remontantny, that is stretched therefore also fruits ripen not all at the same time. Fruits are large granatina with a leathery okoloplodnik from 10 to 15 cm in the diameter, up to 600-700gr. reddish, yellow and brownish or yellow and olive color.

Seeds most often dark red, are more rare light, are surrounded with a juicy layer of pulp of sour, sweet-sour or sweet taste. There are they in the nests located in two tiers.

The tree of pomegranate lives from 100 to 300 years. Begins to fructify for 6-7 year and gives up to 20-60 kg of fruits from one tree.

Pomegranate grows in Iran, Afghanistan, the countries of the Mediterranean, North Africa, Tajikistan, meets in the Crimea and Transcaucasia.

Pomegranate since the most ancient times is used not only in food, but also in the medicinal and cosmetic purposes. It is used not only fruits and juice of pomegranate, but also a peel of fruits, leaves, flowers, bark and roots of a plant.

- Contain in a peel of pomegranate: ursolovy acid, tannins.

- In fruits: vitamins of group B, C, lemon, apple acids, sugar, calcium, potassium, iron, phosphorus and other useful substances.

- Pomegranate juice perfectly satisfies thirst, refreshes, lowers heat.

- Medicines from pomegranate possess knitting, antivermicular and anti-inflammatory properties.

- In antique times of grenades applied at gastrointestinal diseases, dysentery, to healing of wounds.

- Fruits warn avitaminosis, anemia, a scurvy.

- Garnet juice improves sight, removes slags, reduces arterial blood pressure, and helps to endure a climax easily.

- Broth from a peel is applied at quinsy and stomatitis.

- Leaves have antibacterial properties and are used at treatment of infectious diseases.

Pomegranate is effectively applied in cosmetics, possesses bleaching and rejuvenating properties.

- In old times juice of pomegranate cramped freckles, pigmentary spots and eels.

- For disposal of eels to mix 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of soda, 1 tablespoon of fresh garnet juice, it is good to mix, put on a face and to massage carefully in the locations of eels. To wash away boiled water of room temperature.

- Nutritious mask
To mix 2 tablespoons of cottage cheese with 2 teaspoons of cream and 2 teaspoons of fresh garnet juice. It is good to stir, apply to skin for 20 minutes, to wash away water of room temperature.

- The mask rejuvenating
To mix 2 tablespoons of pomegranate with 1 tablespoon of sour cream, 1 teaspoon of honey and 1 egg yolk, it is good to stir and add so much oatmeal that smetanoobrazny weight turned out. To put on a face for 15 minutes, to remove the wadded tampon moistened in weak tea leaves of green tea. To wash these tea leaves. Water it is possible to wash in half an hour, hour.

- A mask for the withering dry skin
2 tablespoons of garnet juice to mix with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and 1 teaspoon of honey, it is good to stir and put on a face for 15 minutes. To wash away warm water. To wash cool.

- For strengthening of hair, their splendor and gloss, after each washing to rinse hair water about addition of garnet juice. On 1 liter of boiled warmish water 1-2 tablespoons of garnet juice.