Tibetan: སེ་འབྲུ
Pronunciation: sedru
Botanical name: Punica granatum

Other names: སེ་ལ་ཤརྟུ (Wyl: se la shartu), མཆིན་ནད་ཀྱི་དགྲ (Wyl: mchin nad kyi dgra, lit. «enemy of liver diseases»), ཌཱ་ཌི་མ (Wyl: DA Di ma), ཕ་ལ་ཏ་ཀ (Wyl: pha la ta ka), མ་ཧུ་ར (Wyl: ma hu ra), ཕོ་བའི་གཉེན (Wyl: pho ba’i gnyen, lit. «friend of stomach»), རྐེད་མ (Wyl: rked ma), སྤྲེའུ་ཤིང (Wyl: spre’u shing, lit. «monkey tree»), མཛོད་ལྡན (Wyl: mdzod ldan, lit. «treasury»), ལོ་ཐོག་གཤེད (Wyl: lo thog gshed), ཤིང་ཏོག་སྐྱུར་མོ (Wyl: shing tog skyur mo, lit. «sour fruit»).

Class of materia medica: medicinal trees ཤིང་སྨན་སྡེ (Wyl: shing sman sde).
Part used: The pomegranate fruits
Period of collection: The fruits are collected in October-November after their maturation.
Method of processing: Juicy edible seeds are taken out, dried in the sun and then used.
Taste: sour to sweet
Potency: warm to oily

Medicinal uses: it restores metabolic heat (me drod), corrects loss of appetite, eliminates all kinds of stomach diseases, stops cold natured diarrhea. The pomegranate is known as “king of hot medicines” and it is used for all forms of cold diseases and rLung (rlung) disorders of the lungs.