The effect of seed bananas, not only tonic for the kidney, but also considered the ‘king’ of all kinds of bananas

03/31/2022 07:50 GMT+7

Ms. Dao Thuy Ha (Hoang Mai, Hanoi) shared the secret to helping her husband improve his gentleman’s bravery over the past 1 year, which is dried banana seed wine, left on a pan, then cooled and soaked with 40 degrees alcohol. After half a year, alcohol infused with a dose of 100ml/day will improve the situation of “undersaid not to listen”.

Ms. Ha said that the wine soaked in banana seeds can also be used by women because this is a remedy of the Muong people that has been used since ancient times. If women are tired and frigid in love, sipping banana wine is very good.

According to Dr. Huynh Tan Vu – Lecturer at University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City, Head of Day Treatment Unit, Hospital of University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City, Campus 3, banana is a common plant in Vietnam, from from the mountains to the plains, from the South to the North.

Banana tree besides culinary value (fruits, tubers, stems, flowers are used to process dishes) also have medicinal value. Bananas have many different types, but in terms of medicinal value, three types of bananas are usually used: seed bananas, wild bananas and pepper bananas.

As for the seed banana, this is a wild banana, naturally distributed in Vietnam, grown for its leaves, the ripe fruit is edible, and the seed is considered a precious medicine. Parts used are tubers, stems, fruits and seeds.

Banana seeds have many uses.

Banana seeds have a different nutritional composition than regular bananas. If bananas are mainly fiber, potassium, vitamins, then banana seeds contain many tannins, saponins, essential oils, serotonin, dopamine, catecholamines…
These ingredients are studied to help explain its effects on health.

Oriental medicine considers banana seed as a medicine with average, acrid, sweet taste. Banana seeds have the effect of blood loss, heat loss, diuretic. … Western medicine has also studied the uses of banana seeds for health. Here are the effects of this folk fruit that many people apply.

Banana seeds when green are eaten instead of vegetables, ripe fruit is edible but not delicious, has the effect of deworming. Some places use green seeded bananas to treat urinary stones: 7-8 thinly sliced ​​bananas, yellow stars, take 30-50g to blow and then drink 3-4 cups a day at fullness. You can brew boiling water like making tea, drink 3-4 times a day. There are also places to use banana seeds to expel stones: crunchy roasted banana seeds, crushed, sifted, 2 tablespoons of powder mixed with hot water a day.

Banana peel 20g, thorny root 20g, pomegranate peel 20g, rose hip 20g, guava buds 10g dried, finely chopped, excellent drink to treat dysentery. Crushed banana seeds, squeezed juice to cure high fever and delirium. Banana seed mixed with lemongrass, mistletoe or apple tree bark every 4g, finely chopped yellow star, sharp with 200ml water and 50ml drink once a day to treat bloody dysentery.

Seed banana tubers, forest banana tubers, hook roots, 10-20g each with a yellow star are used as a tranquilizer for Thai people in the Northwest. The stem of the banana tree is still young, cut a ripe grilled segment to squeeze the juice to cure toothache.

According to foreign documents, the decoction of the stem and leaves of banana seeds has a diuretic effect and cures edema. Banana seeds have the effect of curing diabetes, nephritis, high blood pressure, the juice of banana seeds is cool to drink, detoxifies, stimulates digestion.

Khanh Chi