Pomegranate is a fruit.
- botanical information
- history
- nutritional information
- magick correspondences and uses
- ritual uses
- Goddesses and deities
- health care
- external skin care
botanical information:
Botanical name: Punica granatum
Common name: pomegranate
Use the botanical name when ordering seeds (bulbs, etc.) or when looking up information in the library. Common names vary by nation, culture, and region, and sometimes the same common name is applied to different plants.
history:
History: Pomegranate trees commonly lined ancient Egyptian temple gardens.
nutritional information:
Pomegranates are a food that increases sexual energy and enhances fertility.
magickal correspondences and uses:
Western element: fire
Magickal uses: creative vision, creativity, inventiveness, prosperity
Magickal substitutions: Pomegranate may be used as a substitute in old spells that call for blood.
ritual uses:
Ritual uses: Pomegranate was used in ancient Greece at weddings and for New Year because pomegranate was associated with fertility.
deities associated with pomegranate:
- Ceres (Roman Goddess)
- Demeter (Greek Goddess)
- Dionysus (Greek God)
- Persephone (Greek Goddess)
health care uses:
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external care:
External Skin care: Poemgranates applied topically to the skin help the skin make more collagen resulting in faster healing.
External skin care: Pomegranate extract in Rhonda Allison Cherry Jubilee Enzyme: Filled with enzymes rich in antioxidants. Mask includes cherry puree, pomegranate, lycopene from tomatoes, and red berries. The primary benefit of this enzyme is the natural polyphenols (flavanoids) that are incredibly rich in antioxidants. This formula contains potent anti-aging value that fights against free radical damage and aids in building healthy skin tissue. It is the deterioration by free radicals that causes the internal aging of the skin. Rhonda Allison Cherry Jubilee Enzyme
See also: herbs.