POMEGRANADE-FOR Erasmus+project
Collaborative dictionary of mythological plants
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Scientific name: Punica granatum
Vulgar name
Spanish: Granada
Basque: mingrana, granada
Italian: Melograno
Greek: Ρόδι
characteristics / morphological description
Type of Fruit:Tree fruit
Color:Dark red, Light pink-red
Taste:Juicy and Sweet
Varieties:Balegal or Crab or Cloud or Francis or Freshman or Granada
Season:Autumn
Origin:India, Iran
Pomegranate:Cultivation
Soil Type:Clay, Sand
ph of Soil:5.5 to 7
Climatic Conditions:Cold, Dry, Hot
uses
Pomegranate is a tree. Various parts of the tree and fruit are used to make medicine.
Pomegranate is used for conditions of the heart and blood vessels, including high blood pressure, congestive heart failure (CHF), heart attack, “hardening of thearteries” (atherosclerosis), and high cholesterol. It is also used for conditions of the digestive tract, including diarrhea, dysentery, and tapeworm and other intestinal parasites.
Some people use pomegranate for flu, swelling of the lining of the mouth(stomatitis), gum disease, erectile dysfunction (ED), diabetes and a complication called acidosis, bleeding, and HIV disease. It is also used for preventing prostate cancer, obesity, and weight loss. Some women use pomegranate to cause anabortion.
How does it work?
Pomegranate contains a variety of chemicals that might have antioxidant effects. Some preliminary research suggests that chemicals in pomegranate juice might slow the progression of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and possibly fight cancer cells. But it is not known if pomegranate has these effects when people drink the juice.
mithology of the pomegranade
Demeter was so upset. She searched everywhere but she couldn't find Persephone. She was so sad that she forbade the trees and plants to grow while her daughter was missing.
But Persephone did not love Hades and to punish him, she decided she would not eat or drink. Hades, who was God of the Underworld, fell in love with Persephone and wanted to marry her, but Demeter refused to allow it. Zeus saw how unhappy this made Demeter and Persephone, so he ruled that Persephone should live with Hades in the dark Underworld for three months of the year and nine months above in the sunlight. Demeter was overjoyed to have Persephone back, but her happiness did not last. Zeus found out that Persephone has sucked on some pomegranate seeds while down in the Underworld.
This meant that Persephone had to go back. Because the plants had all died, people did not have enough food. Therefore Zeus decided that Persephone should come home. There was one condition- she could not have had anything to eat or drink while she was in the Underworld.
Ever after, there was a winter for three months each year.
Pomegranade in modern Greece
The origin of Pomegranade name
The name derives from the Roman name Punica Kind of coastal geographical region of Tunisia, and the homonymous population, otherwise called Carthaginian; the plants were so named because in Rome pomegranates came from that region.
The name "pomegranate" derives from the Latin malum ("Apple") and granatum ("seeded"). The same origin is also recognized in other languages as in English "Pomegranate", and German "Granatapfel" (apple with seeds) . In old English it was known as the "apple of Grenada" (Granada's apple).