Banana is one of the most popular
fruit all around the world for its delicious taste and easy to grow. Bananas
grow in a wide variety of soils, as long as the soil is at least 60 cm
deep, has good drainage and is not compacted.
Most people used banana by
consuming the fruit, and some native people in Asia use its leaves as food
wrapped. Banana contains many beneficial mineral for body such as vitamin B6, fiber,
vitamin C, manganese and potassium. Along with other fruits and vegetables,
consumption of bananas can reduce risk of colorectal cancer and in women, breast
cancer and renal cell carcinoma.
Banana Leaves as Food Wrapping |
But actually, which is rarely
used by common people, the banana peel is very useful for health, such as below:
1. To relieve pain
The vegetable
oil in banana peel has certain compounds which is beneficial to reduce pain. Put
a fresh and clean banana peel to reduce pain from burn or graze.
2. To deal with itchiness
Itchiness caused
by mosquito or soft allergy can be healed using banana peel. To use it just put
banana peel on the itchy skin.
3. To treat a wart
Banana peel
believed has antivirus activities so can be used to cure wart from skin. Just put
the banana peel on the skin, and hold it with adhesive plaster and let it heal
by itself.
4. To accelerate the wound healing
A dry wound
sometimes feels itchy because closed by the hard dead skin. The dead skin can
be removed more quickly just by applying a banana skin, because it will react with
the enzymes contained therein.
Just try this at home. Don’t worry
because this kind of herbal medicine recipe doesn’t have bad side effect.
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