Banana Peel To Relieve Pain And Heal The Wound

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.