Sour pomegranate, the name of traditional Chinese medicine. This is pomegranate, a sour fruit of pomegranate family. It is distributed in most areas of China. It has the effects of quenching thirst, astringing intestines and stopping bleeding. Commonly used for fluid injury, thirst, diarrhea, chronic dysentery, metrorrhagia and leukorrhagia.
Pomegranate, also known as Tilia amurensis, Pomegranate Ann, Tanruo, Jinpang, Jinpang, Liu Ruo, Mountain Leaf and Sea Pomegranate. Deciduous shrubs or trees, usually 3-5 meters high and as thin as 10 meter, with sharp spikes at the top of branches, angular young branches and hairless old branches.
Leaves are usually opposite, papery, oblong-lanceolate, 2-9 cm long, short-pointed, blunt or slightly concave at the top, slightly blunt from short-pointed to base, bright at the top, and slightly thinner lateral veins; Petiole is short. Flowers are large, with 1-5 branches at the top; Calyx tube is 2-3 cm long, usually red or yellowish, lobes slightly spread, oval triangle, 8- 13 mm long, and there are 1 yellow-green glands on the outside near the top.
There are papillae on the edge; Petals are usually large, red, yellow or white, with a length of 1.5-3cm, a width of 1-2cm and a round top. Filaments are hairless, reaching13 mm; Style longer than stamens. Berries are nearly spherical, with a diameter of 5- 12 cm, usually yellow-brown or yellow-green, sometimes white and sparsely dark purple. Seeds are numerous, obtuse, red to milky white, and fleshy exocarp is edible.