Precious medicine from banana tree
Among banana species, green banana (astringent banana) has the worst flavor, but has long been used as a popular medicine in traditional medicine and folk experience.
Peel off the outer skin of the banana root, wash it, cut it into pieces, crush it, and squeeze out the juice to drink to treat heatstroke, high fever, thirst, and delirium. Combine the banana root with mulberry mistletoe, cogon root, and purple jasmine, each 12g, chopped, and boil with 400ml of water until 100ml remains. Drink twice a day to treat coughing up blood. Combine lemongrass root, apple mistletoe, or apple bark, each 4g, fried until golden brown, and boil to drink to treat bloody dysentery.
The Thai people in the Northwest use wild banana root, wild banana root and hook root, each 10-12g, to make a medicine to prevent miscarriage.
Young banana stems, cut into pieces, roasted, then squeezed to get the juice, gargle with a little salt to cure toothache. Old stems are sliced and crushed, squeezed for the juice to drink to quench thirst, induce sweating or applied to stop bleeding.
10g dried banana leaves, 20g areca nut mold, 20g bamboo essence. Burn all ingredients to keep, grind into powder, mix with water and drink to treat hemorrhage and vomiting blood.
Banana flower can be chopped, boiled or made into salad to increase milk production in women who have just given birth and prevent constipation in the elderly.
Young banana fruit, thinly sliced, mixed with raw vegetables, eaten with jellyfish salad, fish salad to reduce the fishy taste and prevent diarrhea. Green banana fruit still on the tree can be cut in half to collect the sap to apply to treat ringworm or the fruit can be dried, crushed, sifted into fine powder, and taken daily to treat stomach ulcers with good results.
To cure bladder stones, take green banana seeds, slice them thinly, dry them, roast them until golden brown, and bury them in the ground for a few days. Each time, use 50-100g, boil them with 400ml of water, and drink them twice a day on a full stomach. You can also use the brewed liquid to make tea.
Ripe banana seeds eaten when hungry produce worms.
Banana seeds.
Banana seeds
Crush 200g and soak in 40-degree alcohol (1,000ml) for 10 days, the longer the better, shake well occasionally. Drink 2 times a day, 15ml each time before meals or before going to bed, can add sugar to make it easier to drink. The medicine has the effect of reducing pain, reducing swelling, treating back pain, aching limbs, and rheumatism.
Some people have used banana seeds to expel stones with very good results. Use roasted banana seeds, crushed, and sifted into fine powder. Every day, use 2 tablespoons of powder in a teapot, add boiling water to make tea. While taking the medicine, you will see a cloudy substance at the bottom of the overnight urine container. Take continuously for 30 days, and all the stones will come out in small pieces.
40g dried banana peel, toasted until slightly golden, ground into powder; 4g cinnamon; 2g licorice, ground into powder. Mix the two powders well, mix with honey to make pills, take 2-3 times a day with warm water to treat chronic abdominal pain. Or 20g each of banana peel, thorny root, pomegranate peel, ivy root; 10g guava buds, dried, decocted to drink to treat dysentery.
According to foreign documents, the decoction of the stem and leaves of the banana tree has a diuretic effect and cures edema. The decoction of the banana stem is a cooling drink, quenches thirst, detoxifies, and stimulates digestion. The bracts (red leaves covering the banana bunch) and the banana flowers are decocted to make a tonic, cool the lungs, and detoxify. The banana tree fruit is effective in treating diabetes, nephritis, and high blood pressure.
According to Health & Life - NT
