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and wide, with many of the old ones living to this day. In a village on Menorca in the Mediterranean Balearic Islands, there was a single ancient pomegranate tree which just managed to provide one fruit or maybe two fruits per year in its old age. It must have arrived with the Phoenicians, relentless travellers and traders, who created overland and sea trade routes and controlled a large part of Mediterranean business in ancient times. It has been suggested the pomegranate tree can grow to anything from 200 years upwards in age, but records are hazy as to the exact age of this particularly ancient Menorcan tree. and wide, with many of the old ones living to this day. The book Pomegranates: Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine, In a village on Menorca in the Mediterranean Balearic Islands, recently published to showcase the research of N. Seeram and there was a single ancient pomegranate tree which just managed to _ colleagues at the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, makes the provide one fruit or maybe two fruits per year in its old age. It case for the renewed interest in the fruit. A study released by this must have arrived with the Phoenicians, relentless travellers and group shows that drinking a glass of the juice daily can help to traders, who created overland and sea trade routes and controlleda slow the effects of prostate cancer, allowing diagnosed men to large part of Mediterranean business in ancient times. It has been live longer. They also suggest that menopausal and post- suggested the pomegranate tree can grow to anything from 200 menopausal symptoms, including hot flushes, may be reduced by years upwards in age, but records are hazy as to the exact age of the phyto-oestrogen found in the pomegranate seed. Apparently, this particularly ancient Menorcan tree. the pomegranate is one of only a few plants known to contain oestrogen-type compounds. Life force of the pomegranate The same group also makes the The question arises: "Why is the important point that it is more healthful pomegranate so celebrated in myth, . to drink a properly processed juice than religion and history in so many ... It seems almost that to eat the fruit, due to the fact that 70 cultures?" With references reaching this fruit is special beyond per cent of the antioxidants found in ack to the dawn of time and human . e juice are derived from the pee existence in our very creation myths, others, that it has been when the whole fruit is squeezed. and with so much scientific and singled out asa gift to the Bven more interesting to some, medical interest being shown in the perhaps, is the study which implies tha current era, it seems almost that this human race. the pomegranate functions as a "natural pruit is special beyond others. that it Viagra’ The study measured the as been singled out as a gift to the erectile function of rabbits, showing human race. that a regular intake of pomegranate Other questions arise. The pome- juice raises nitric oxide levels and granate tree lives a very long time and, like the fruit, suffers lood supply in a way similar to what is seen in those who take almost no disease or damage by pests. Is this tree actually Viagra. Now, proof positive of this property would certainly add promoting its own health? Are its powerful antioxidants actually weight to the notion that the pomegranate is the Tree of Life! keeping the tree healthy, too? Why has the pomegranate, as But the interest goes much further. Today in the USA, you can opposed to other fruit, been selected by many cultures and find a chewing gum called Pomegranate Power and a religions to represent fertility, good health and good luck? pomegranate chicken sausage made by Jody Maroni's Sausage The writer of this article has developed skills in kinesiology and Kingdom in Los Angeles. At the 2006 Oscar award presentations, dowsing over many years of practice in natural therapies, and a celebrities could be seen sipping martinis made from pomegranate test of some high-quality, wild-crafted, chemical-free Georgian juice (amongst other less healthful ingredients). Pomegranate is pomegranate juice has shown a particularly powerful strength in eing used as an antioxidant additive in a brand of beauty the "life force" of the juice. This is only anecdotal, of course, but roducts called Archipelago. The co-president of the company those who work with energies know how reliable these tests can _ claims it is the most successful product they have ever released. be in revealing the "energetic" side of any substance. In the past three years, California has become the largest In the end, we are always dealing with the human system as a roducer of pomegranates in the USA, thanks to the efforts of a "bio-field", or field of information or energy, which at the most Beverly Hills—based couple, Stewart and Lynda Resnick, who fundamental level operates on energies of all qualities.** In the final analysis, all the medications and foods we consume cs) are consumed because we wish to incorporate the energetics of those substances into our energy fields. And it is the @ quality of the energetics of any substance that we consume P) é) that is of the highest importance. I suggest that the pomegranate has always been @® — &) recognised as a fruit which holds a particularly potent ae energetic charge. It is in the look of the fruit, the taste of the 3) juice, the colour of the arils. Anyone who pays attention to © what their senses (including more subtle senses) are telling 2) 3 them will soon know whether a substance will enhance their Z energy system or not. Naturally occurring pomegranates and their juice register high on the list of those substances which do enhance our energy system. 2) this fruit is special beyond others, that it has been singled out as a gift to the human race. @ > ay Renewed interest in the pomegranate in the USA The venerable pomegranate is becoming decidedly trendy in recent times. In the USA in the last 18 months, over 475 new pomegranate food and beverage products were introduced according to the director of Datamonitor's Productscan Online. That is virtually an explosion of interest. APRIL — MAY 2007 NEXUS = 21 _ it seems almost that "Airborne particle pollution is bad today." www.nexusmagazine.com