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Pomegranate

Punica granatum

Pomegranate appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.

Risk: moderate
Books: 86
Contexts: 5
Mentions: 436

Overview Reading Contexts Citations Related Books

Archive Profile

Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.

Herb identity

Common name: pomegranate
Latin name: Punica granatum(candidate)
Identity note: Strong symbolic, biblical, and ritual archive material.

Safety

moderate

Food use is common; extracts and medicinal dosing may interact with some medicines.

Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.

MSK About Herbs: Food use is common; extracts and medicinal dosing may interact with some medicines.

Aliases

pomegranatepomegranatesPunica granatum

Pomegranate in Historical Sources

Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.

Hermetikon's curated reading of Pomegranate (Punica granatum) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 2 preparation or ritual-use entries. The strongest recurring contexts are medicine, astrology, and symbolism. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.

Medicine

high

King's identifies pomegranate as Granatum, specifically the stem and root bark of Punica granatum used as pomegranate root-bark.

King's American Dispensatory | Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854

Page 62

Astrology

high

Agrippa places pomegranates among sweet fruits of Venus, saying poets held that they were first sown by Venus in Cyprus.

Three Books of Occult Philosophy | Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim | 1533

Page 114

Symbolism

high

Frazer retells the Persephone myth in which eating pomegranate seed binds the goddess to periodic return to the underworld.

The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1912

Chapter II. Demeter And Persephone.

Preparations and ritual uses

Astringent decoction

high

Culpeper boils pomegranate rinds with red wine and myrtles as part of a preparation for flux of the belly.

Culpeper's Complete Herbal | Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED.

Root-bark medicine

high

King's frames pomegranate as medicinal root-bark from the stem and root of Punica granatum.

King's American Dispensatory | Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854

Page 62

Pomegranate Archive Contexts

Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.

Medicine

1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: The Family Herbal.

Matched as pomegranate; high confidence.

Astrology

6 passages across 6 books; strongest source: Encyclopaedia of Occultism.

Matched as pomegranate; high confidence.

Folk magic

1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: The Golden Bough.

Matched as pomegranates; high confidence.

Preparation

5 passages across 5 books; strongest source: Culpeper's Complete Herbal.

Matched as pomegranate; high confidence.

Safety

1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics.

Matched as pomegranates; high confidence.

Pomegranate Cited Excerpts

Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.

5 shown

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper

1653

"...thereof with tar, with sharp vinegar into a poultice, and laid on hot, helps the leprosy; being boiled in red wine with pomegranate rinds and myrtles, stays the lask or other flux of the belly; boiled with vinegar and quince, it eases the pains of the gout; barley-flour, white salt, honey, and vinegar mingled together, takes away the itch speedily and certainly. The water distilled from the green barley in the end of May, is very good for those that have defluctions of humours fallen into their eyes, and eases the pain, being dropped into them; or white bread steep..."

THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED.Open in Reader

Preparationalias: pomegranatehigh confidence

King's American Dispensatory

Harvey Wickes Felter

1854

"... the bites of venomous reptiles in Brazil. An infusion of the whole plant is reputed galactagogue. GRANATUM (U. S. P.)— POMEGRANATE. "The bark of the stem and root of Pun if a Granatuin, Linne " — (C. S.P.). Nat. Ord. — Lythrariea\ Com MOM Name: Pomegranate root-bark. iLi.rsTRATio.N : Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plant.'!, 113. Botanical Source. — Pomegranate is a small tree or shrub, with spinescent branchlets. Tlic leaves are opposite, oblong, inclining to lanceolate, entire, smooth, with no marginal vein, 2 or 3 inches long, by 5 or 10 lines wide, obtusCL deciduous,..."

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Preparationalias: pomegranatehigh confidence

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

1533

"..., sanders or red sandal-wood, coriander, and all sweet perfumes; and delightful and sweet fruits, as sweet pears, figs, pomegranates, which, the poets say, were, in Cyprus, first sown by Venus. Also the Rose of Lucifer was dedicated to her; also the Myrtle-tree of Hesperus. Moreover, all luxurious, delicious animals, and of a strong love, as dogs, conies, odorous sheep and goats, both female and male, which generate sooner than any other animal; also the bull, for his disdain, and the calf, for his wantonness. Amongst birds, the swan, the wagtail, the swallow, the p..."

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Astrologyalias: pomegranateshigh confidence

Fourth Book & Magical Treatises

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (attributed)

1655

"...th fignifie fields, vines, and inftruments to work in fields, and leather, and of fruits, corn, acorns, oak-apples, and pomegranates. *Jupiter* hath oil, honey, filk-wormes, cloth, wine, and grafs, and things that are odoriferous. *Mars* fignifies wine, and flefh, and efpecially hogs, wars, and armour, and fuch things as belong thereunto, and red garments. The *Sun* hath fignification of wheat, and wine, purple colours, and cloth, and all things that are affimulated unto gold, horfes and birds, fuch as hawks and falcons. *Venus* doth fignifie fatnefs and grapes, fig..."

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Preparationalias: pomegranateshigh confidence

The Family Herbal

John Hill

1755

"...it is a powerful astringent: it stops purgings and bleedings of all kinds, and is good against the whites. ### The WILD POMEGRANATE TREE. *Balaustia*. A SMALLER tree than the former, but like it in its manner of growth; except that the branches are more crooked and irregular, and are more thorny. The leaves are oblong, small, and of a bright green, and they are set in clusters towards the end of the branches. The flowers are beautiful, they are double like a rose, and of a fine purple. The flowers are the part of the wild pomegranate used in medicine; our druggists..."

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Medicinealias: pomegranatehigh confidence

Books Mentioning Pomegranate

Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.

86 books

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

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57 mentionscited

The Holy Kabbalah

Arthur Edward Waite | 1929

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23 mentions

The Golden Bough

James George Frazer | 1907

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14 mentions

Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics

James Hastings | 1913

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14 mentions

Young Folks' Treasury Vol. 2

Hamilton Wright Mabie (ed.) | 1909

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13 mentions

King's American Dispensatory

Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854

Archive Profile

Herb identity

Safety

Aliases

Pomegranate in Historical Sources

Medicine

Astrology

Symbolism

Preparations and ritual uses

Astringent decoction

Root-bark medicine

Pomegranate Archive Contexts

Medicine

Astrology

Folk magic

Preparation

Safety

Pomegranate Cited Excerpts

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

King's American Dispensatory

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Fourth Book & Magical Treatises

The Family Herbal

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Books Mentioning Pomegranate