Punica granatum སེ་འབྲུ་

English name: Pomegranate

Tibetan name: Se-dru (སེ་འབྲུ་)

Location: found in some regions of Tibet, Nepal and Shimla, from 700 to 2700m. It grows on hillsides, plains and especially near warm fields, human habitats and roadsides. 

Part used: seed and fruit (འབྲུ་གུ་)

Taste and potency: sour and sweet taste (རོ་སྐྱུར་ལ་མངར་བ་); sour post-digestive taste (ཞུ་རྗེས་སྐྱུར་བ་); warm and oily potency (ནུས་པ་དྲོ་ལ་སྣུམ་པའོ་)

Profound value of Punica granatum in Tibetan Medicine:

• Improves digestion (མེ་དྲོད་): pomegranate stimulates "digestive fire", aiding in better absorption of nutrients. It  promotes bowel regularity, and alleviates gastrointestinal discomfort. It improves morning appetite and is an excellent agent to remedy diarrhoea of a "cold" nature and Beken disorders.  
• Anemia (ཟུངས་སྟོབས་སྐྱེད་): pomegranate also nourishes the seven bodily constituents (ལུས་ཟུངས་བདུན་). It contributes to raising haemoglobin levels, combating anemia, and improving energy levels and circulation.
• Beken and cold disorders (བད་ཀན): through improving thermogenic and metabolic processes in the body, pomegranate helps to eliminate all "cold" disorders.
• Lung disorders (གློ་ནད་): it "warms" up the lungs, helping to combat chronic lung disorders with increased mucus secretions, like chronic bronchitis and asthma. 
• Wind disorders (རླུང་ནད): pomegranate's nourishing, warm and oily nature, helps with Wind imbalance. 

According to the Second Tibetan Medicine Tantra (བཤད་པའི་རྒྱུད།):