Introduction
Banana is found everywhere in India and the best varieties of banana are found in India only. There are many varieties of banana but the main ones among them are Manikya, Kadli, Mritya Kadli, Amrit Kadli, Champa Kadli etc. Bananas that grow on their own in forests are called Van Kadli. Many varieties of banana are found in Assam, Bengal and Mumbai. Golden yellow bananas with thin peel are delicious to eat. Red banana is long and pale. Vegetable is made from triangular banana with thick peel.
Both ripe and raw bananas are used. Ripe banana is peeled and eaten and raw banana is made into vegetable. Banana flower is also made into vegetable. The sweetness of banana is based on the glucose element present in it. Glucose is sugar. It provides nutrition and strength to the nerves. Various elements are found in banana. Banana makes the body strong and powerful. Banana is a fruit which is available in every season. Ripe banana is beneficial in bleeding and leucorrhoea.
Banana flowers are smooth, sweet, astringent, heavy, absorbent, bitter and slightly hot. It is fire-inducing, wind-destroyer, hematemesis, worm-destroyer, tuberculosis and leprosy-destroyer.
Banana also contains a small amount of elements (protein and fat) which strengthen the body and a weak person should eat banana with milk.
Treatment of various diseases
1. Swelling:
Banana is beneficial in all types of swelling.
2. Injury or abrasion:
In case of injury or abrasion, tying banana peel on that place does not increase the swelling. Mix ripe banana and wheat flour in water, heat it and apply it.
3. Gastric ulcer:
A patient suffering from gastric ulcer should eat milk and banana together.
Eating banana provides relief in diseases like inflammation of intestines, stomach ulcers, gastritis, inflammation of colitis and diarrhea etc.
Eating banana and milk provides relief in stomach ulcers.
4. Heart pain:
Eating 2 bananas mixed with 15 grams of honey cures heart pain.
5. Eating mud:
If the child has a habit of eating mud, then ripe banana should be fed mixed with honey. By consuming this, the habit of eating mud is removed.
6. Ringworm, scabies:
Grind the pulp of banana in lemon juice and apply it on ringworm, scabies and itching. This cures ringworm, scabies and itching.
7. Stomach ache:
Eating banana is beneficial in any type of stomach ache. Banana is a nutritious food for children and weak people. Eating banana as food is beneficial in diarrhea, stomach pain and stomach ulcers.
8. Diarrhea:
Eating 2 bananas with about 100 grams of curd for a few days cures diarrhea and dysentery.
Grinding the stem of the banana tree, extracting juice of 20 to 40 ml and drinking it stops repeated diarrhea.
Boiled raw banana and making roti and eating it with arua bharta cures chronic diarrhea.
Eating banana mixed with a little saffron in curd is beneficial.
9. Mouth ulcers:
If there are ulcers on the tongue, eating one banana with cow's curd in the morning is beneficial.
10. Burns from fire:
In case of burns from fire, grinding banana and applying it is beneficial.
11. Bleeding from nose:
Mixing sugar in 1 glass of milk and eating it with 2 bananas for 10 days stops bleeding from nose.
12. Urine retention:
Drinking 4 spoons of banana stem juice mixed with 2 spoons of ghee helps in clearing urine flow. Urine flow starts immediately after its consumption.
Grinding the pulp from the middle part of the banana root and applying it on the stomach below the navel helps in clearing urine flow. Eating a ripe banana and drinking amla juice mixed with sugar helps in clearing urine flow. Mixing banana stem juice with cow urine and drinking helps in clearing urine flow.
13. Frequent urination:
Eating two ripe bananas after meals every day stops frequent urination. Consuming ripe banana and amla juice with sweet milk cures urinary disease. Grinding ripe banana, galangal, vidarikand and shatawar and eating them with milk stops frequent urination.
Mixing 2 ripe bananas, one spoonful of Indian gooseberry juice and 10 grams of sugar candy and drinking it for 4 to 5 days cures frequent urination.
14. High blood pressure:
Due to the high amount of potassium in banana, it is especially beneficial for high blood pressure patients. Eating banana keeps high blood pressure normal.
Eating one ripe banana on an empty stomach every day and chewing two cardamom seeds on top makes high blood pressure normal.
15. Typhoid:
Banana is a good food for a patient suffering from typhoid. It reduces thirst.
16. Pitta disease:
Eating ripe banana with ghee cures pitta disease.
17. Hiccups:
Hiccups stop by licking 1 gram of ash of wild banana leaf mixed with 10 grams of honey.
Hiccups stop by grinding 3 grams of banana root with water and adding sugar or sugar candy to it and consuming it.
18. Pelvis:
By extracting juice from the pulp of banana tree and drinking it, the poison that has reached the pelvis is removed.
19. Burning sensation:
By sleeping on banana and lotus leaves, the burning sensation in the body is relieved.
20. Dysentery:
By eating banana with lemon, dysentery is cured and food is digested quickly. Eating banana mixed with curd is beneficial in dysentery and diarrhea.
21. Leucorrhoea:
By collecting ripe banana, juice of Indian gooseberry and sugar and giving it to women, leucorrhoea and polyuria are cured.
