[Pinyin] Shí Liu Pí 

 【English name】 PERICARPIUM GRANATI 

 【Source】 This product is pomegranate pomegranate Punica granatum L. plants dry skin. Collected after the fall of fruit ripening fruit, and dried. 

 [Properties] This product was irregular flakes or scoop-shaped, sizes, thickness 1.5 ~ 3mm. Outer surface of the red-brown, brown or dark brown, slightly shiny, rough, with the majority verrucose. Some protruding tubular calyx and stubby stems or stems marks. Inner surface of the yellow or red-brown, with uplift reticular vestiges of the stem end. Hard and brittle, yellow cross-section, slightly granular. Odorless, bitter taste. 

 [Identification] (1) cross-section of the product: epicarp is a list of skin cells, arranged in close outside the cuticle. Mesocarp thick, thin-walled cells containing starch grains and calcium oxalate crystal cluster or Cubic; stone cells in individual scattered, round, rectangular or irregular in shape, a few were branched, thick-walled; vascular bundles scattered. Endocarp parenchyma cells less, also contain starch grains and calcium oxalate crystals, small stone cells. 

 Red-brown powder. Stone cells oval, rectangular or irregular in shape, like a small number of branches, diameter of 27 ~ 102μm, wall thick, cell-large, some with brown material. Epidermal cell type or class of rectangular square, slightly thicker wall. Clusters of calcium oxalate crystal diameter of 10 ~ 25μm, rare trigonal. Thread and textured vessel diameter 12 ~ 18μm. Starch grains round, diameter 2 ~ 10μm. 

 (2) of this product powder 1g, add water 10ml, set 60 ℃ water bath for 10 minutes, filtered while hot. Filtrate 1ml, plus 1% 1 drop of ferric chloride ethanol solution, which was dark green. 

 Content determination to take the product powder (over on the 3rd screen) of about 10g, accurately weighed, according to the Determination of tannin content (Appendix Ⅹ B) determination, which was. 

 This product contains not less than 10.0% tannin. 

 [Processing] Pomegranate: remove impurities, wash, cut and dry. 

 Pomegranate carbon: Take Pomegranate block, according to speculation carbon method (Appendix Ⅱ D) fry yellow surface black, tan interior. 

 [Taste] acid, astringent, warm. 

 】 【Go through go through the large intestine. 

 【Indications】 astringent intestinal diarrhea, bleeding, de-worming. For Chronic Diarrhea, Jiu Li, blood in the stool, rectal prolapse, uterine bleeding, vaginal discharge, abdominal pain and parasitic diseases. 

 Dosage 3 ~ 9g. 

 [Storage] Store in cool dry place.