Banana Health Benefits

Banana is an ideal home remedy for constipation, fungal infections, breathing disorder, urinary retention and heart ailments. The banana plant grows in tropical vegetation and is the largest of all herbaceous flowering plants. The banana flower, trunk, fruit and leaf have extensive culinary usages. Creamy, rich, and sweet, bananas are a favorite food for everyone, from infants to elders.

Banana Medicinal Properties

The banana roots are anthelmintic, depurative, antiscorbutic and tonic. The fruits are astringent, emollient, sweet, aphrodisiac, anthelmintic, antidysenteric and anti diabetic.

Banana Home Remedies

It is used to treat the following conditions:

• Breathing Disorder

  Everyday, roast a banana and eat the baked pulp. This gradually relieves respiratory distress.

• Boils

  Scrape the insides of a ripe banan peel, cover the boil with it and bandage over that. The boil will gradually shrink.

• Burns

  The demulcent effect of a ripe banana helps in healing a burn.

• Fungal Infections

  Add mashed banana to a Neem decoction and apply this on the fungal infection.

• Facial Dryness

  A banana mask prepared with mashed banana and honey is a sure cure for facial dryness.

• Urinary Retention

  The banana stem juice mixed with some cardamom powder is an effective therapy for painful urination and tiny stones.

• Anaemia

  Consumption of powdered banana root powder mixed with milk helps with anaemia.

• Wounds

  Wounds are dressed with banana leaves to help with the healing and to prevent abscess.

• Menstrual Disorder

  Cooked banana flowers help in providing relief from painful and excessively bleeding menstrual disorders.

• Constipation

  From an Ayurvedic perspective, if you have a tendency for pitta dosha, banana is a good antidote for constipation. A ripe banana with hot milk when you are retiring for the night should help with this condition. Read other Constipation Home Remedies.

• Heart Ailments

  An average banana contains 467 mg of potassium, and only 1 mg of sodium. A banana a day may help to prevent high blood pressure and protect against arteriosclerosis.

Indian Language Glossary:

English	Latin	Sanskrit	Hindi	Marathi	Tamil	Telugu	Malayalam	Kannada
Banana	Musa sapientum	Kadali	Kela	Kela/Keli	Kadali	Ariti	Kadalivala	Valchannu