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Pomegranate is now increasingly popular because the effect of beneficial for health. Besides good for the heart, the pomegranate was also effective against breast cancer.
Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) are shrubs or small trees, is a lot of ornamental plants grown and maintained in the courtyard of the population in Indonesia. Except as an ornamental plant, the pomegranate has a delicious edible fruit, fruit leather is used as a medicine to stop diarrhea or obstipansia.

Results of laboratory tests showed that pomegranate (pomegranate) contains chemical compounds that can reduce the risk of the formation of a hormone that causes breast cancer. A recent study of California research team also found that pomegranate prevent breast cancer. From the results of research, the pomegranate is rich in ellagitannin, a type of chemical that prevented the production of the enzyme aromatase. This enzyme that helps trigger the formation of estrogen that the tumor cell growth and breast cancer.
Drug anti-cancer drugs that inhibit the supply is now functioning aromatase (such as arimidex, Aromasin, and Femara). Medicines and drugs that work in ways similar to ellagitannin, ie stop the production of estrogen, but these drugs are sometimes less effective, so the search needed a safe new drugs, namely from nature like a pomegranate.

Believed to produce substances toxic to tapeworms are peletierin alkaloid which is the first alkaloid to be isolated from plants. Skin pomegranate fruit and roots are often found in Indonesian traditional medicine for many years because it contains ingredients.

However, the researchers warned pomegranate seeds is poorly absorbed body. From research on laboratory, new significant results will appear when consumed in large quantities. Researchers are still struggling to find how much intake of pomegranate effective for preventing cancer.

The effect and healing wounds caused by tannins as polyphone compounds have activity as an antioxidant. Potential antioxidants from various parts of plants used in herbal medicine to stop diarrhea, as an anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and in modern research as osteoarthritis drug, anti-tumor and anti-cancer properties. Since the last 7 years, research by the publication of the pomegranate yield 7 times more than the publication for many years before that. Therefore the use of pomegranate as a medicine and food supplements also increased.

Although not fully reveals the best diet cancer prevention, the study provides new information on the behavior of cancer cells, but seeing the results of a study of pomegranate, it is expected that its use as herbal remedies and food supplements will increase. Because many in Indonesia is growing attention to the pomegranate tree had to be raised again by way of cultivation that do not need to be imported. Pomegranate extract pomegranate seeds and oil can be used to reduce levels of fat in the body so that very well used in the preparation of slimming drugs and to reduce obesity. If the research as an anti-tumor or anticancer been able to convince us, then pomegranate could be developed as an anti-tumor and anti-cancer properties.