Pomegranate & Love
Pomegranate could help all of your sexual health problems, from low testosterone and diminished libido to erectile dysfunction to even prostate cancer? This superfood is filled with antioxidants that have proven results to help both men and women have better sex lives. This fruit can increase testosterone levels, improve sperm quality, and increase sex drive and mood.
Pomegranate has three times more antioxidants than even red wine and green tea. Antioxidants are what improve blood circulation, decrease inflammation, reduce the risk of heart disease, and fight harmful free radicals that cause aging, illness, and cancer. Pomegranate antioxidants have even been known to help fight breast cancer.
If you’re looking to improve your sexual health, you need to add pomegranate to your daily lineup. From juice to seeds to supplement extracts, it’s easy to enhance your life with the wonders of pomegranate.
Pomegranate & The Bible
In Judaism,
Pomegranate seeds are said to number 613—one for each of the Bible's 613 commandments. The pomegranate was revered for the beauty of its shrub, flowers, and fruit—symbolising a. sanctity (holiness, wholeness, wellness, health), fertility (fruitfulness), multiplication, and abundance. The Song of Solomon compares the cheeks of a bride behind her veil to the two halves of a pomegranate. Depictions of the fruit have long featured in architecture and design. They decorated the pillars of King Solomon's temple and the robes and regalia of Jewish kings and priests.
Christianity
A symbol of resurrection and life everlasting in Christian art, the pomegranate is often found in devotional statues and paintings of the Virgin and Child.
In his commentary on the Song of Songs, John Gill likens the pomegranate to the leaders of the church. He writes, '..in the tribe of Zebulun was a city called Remmonmethoar, the beautiful pomegranate, ( Joshua 19:13 ) ; now the rind being broken it appears full of grains or kernels, of a white colour, interspersed with a reddish purple juice, like blood, as Pausanias remarks, and looks very beautiful; and is aptly used to set forth the church's beauty, who, like her beloved, ( Song of Solomon 5:10 ) : by which may be meant ecclesiastical officers, placed on an eminence in the church; to take care, among other things, of the discipline of it, according to the laws of Christ, ( 1 Timothy 5:17 ) ( Hebrews 13:17 ) ( Romans 12:8 ).
Medicinal uses
Preparations of different parts of the plant—flower, fruit juice, rind, bark—have been used for a wide variety of conditions, although gastroenterological ailments predominate. Dioscorides describes some of them:
All sorts of pommegranats are of a pleasant taste and good for ye stomach . . . The juice of the kernells prest out, being sod and mixed with Hony, are good for the ulcers that are in ye mouth and in ye Genitalls and in the seate, as also for the Pterygia in digitis and for the Nomae and ye excrescencies in ulcers, and for ye paines of ye eares, and for the griefs in ye nosthrills . . . The decoction of ye flowers is a collution of moist flagging gummes and of loose teeth . . . ye rinde having a binding faculty . . . but ye decoction of ye roots doth expell and kill the Latas tineas ventris.”
The use of pomegranate rind and root bark as a treatment for tapeworm infestation (“Latas tineas ventris”) was recommended by several early Roman medical writers and is still listed as a treatment for tapeworms and diarrhoea in a current encyclopaedia of medicinal plants.16
Heraldic uses
The British Medical Association and three royal colleges feature the pomegranate in their coats of arms. The pomegranate was part of Catherine of Aragon's coat of arms and was accepted into English heraldry when she married King Henry VIII in 1509. The Royal College of Physicians of London had adopted it in their coat of arms by the middle of the sixteenth century. The heraldic meanings of the pomegranate hark back to the meanings of the pomegranate in the myth of Persephone—the persistence of life, fertility, and regeneration.
Pomegranate & Zebulonuc Blessings
he Blessing OF Zebulun and Issachar.
Deuteronomy 48:18, 19.
"And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and Issachar, in thy tents.
They shall call the people unto the mountain, there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand."
As the pomegranate abounded in the territory of Zebulon, so was the prophecy of the tribe. Zebulun, the sixth son of Jacob and Leah. A woman who knew not what love meant in marriage. The first chapter of the Testament of Zebulon shares that, Zebulun, was born a good gift to his parents. For when he was born hud father was increased very exceedingly, both in flocks and herds, when with the straked rods he had his portion. (Ch 1:3-4).
Zebulon means "dwelling of honor". Zebulon's territory was a place if the pomegranate. The pomegranate therefore is symbicl of honour and fruitful in our relationships. A dwelling where shame, disappointment and falsity disappears. Receive this gift, and all the benefits the this fruit of love brings in Jesus name!
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References
1. https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/pomegranate/
2.
https://www.norakovats.com/blog/2020/3/10/the-pomegranate#:~:text=With%20its%20plump%20rose%2Dcoloured,therefore%20often%20presented%20at%20weddings.
3. https://drtracygapin.com/sexual-benefits-of-pomegranate/
