The pomegranate makes wonder of life visible to us. With its beauty of colour and shape the age-old tree stands gracefully in the centre of its red blossoms, overwhelming are the usefulness and the taste of its red fruit. It symbolizes the overflowing abundance of nature, its strength and power of resistance, its diversity within the entity of life and its capacity of constant renewal and regeneration.
 
 The latest research shows that the pomegranate hasn't been cultivated by mankind without reason for more than 5.000 years. In former times the skin and juice were often used as ink as well as dye for oriental carpets. The pomegranate has many positive effects on our health. A fatty acid appearing almost only in this fruit, which is demonstrably highly concentrated and has especially positive effects on our health, is important for all metabolism processes in the body.
 
 The pomegranate is an excellent water and food supplier: it contains beta-carotine, vitamins B1, B2 and C, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, iron, albumen a.o. and above all large quantities of antioxidants, secondary plant substances like poly-phenolen (flavonoids, tannins). Of special importance to nutrition experts is the poly-phenol ellag-acid . An optimal anti-oxidative protection, the anti-oxidative effect of the pomegranate is 3 to 10 times higher than in well-known plants like bilberry(blueberry), cranberry or green tea.
 
 From the fruit, the skin, the blossoms, the leaves of the pomegranate to its trunk -everything can be used. The fresh juice has a stimulating impact on the blood in the body, helps for anaemia and improves digestion, especially the activity of the stomach. The pomegranate has a contracting quality and thus stops strong bleeding and sweating, heat flushes as well as diarrhoea. It soothes inflammation, increases the healing of wounds by regeneration of the tissue, is useful for the healing of the skin and mucous membranes, helps for bronchitis and tuberculosis, is effective against skin aging, has a proven, strengthening impact on epidermis, increases the firmness and elasticity of the skin, acts positively compensating on skin moisture and reduces wrinkles. At the same time the preventive as well as healing effect on cancer diseases like skin, breast and prostate cancer is to be stressed.
 
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