The role of bananas: bananas rich in potassium are the first "leg experts" in food. Its rich potassium can help you stretch leg muscles, prevent leg cramps and relieve your legs. At the same time, bananas are sweet and cold, and have high medicinal value. According to foreign media reports, eating a banana for breakfast, lunch and dinner can provide rich potassium for the human body, thus reducing the risk of thrombosis in the brain by about 265,438+0%. Its main functions are clearing stomach, treating constipation, clearing away heat and moistening lung, quenching thirst and polydipsia, replenishing essence and relieving hangover. Because bananas are cold, people with spleen and stomach deficiency, stomachache and diarrhea should eat less, and people with hyperacidity should eat as little as possible. Mix bananas and milk into a paste and apply it to your face to whiten it.
Pharmacological Action There are many kinds of norepinephrine, serotonin and dihydroxyphenylethylamine in the pulp, and 5- hydroxytryptamine 10 ~ 15 μ g/g is produced in Japan. According to the determination, the contents of norepinephrine and 5- hydroxytryptamine in bananas produced in Uganda are 2 μ g/g and 16.2 μ g/g respectively. Eating 10 mg of serotonin every day has no obstacle to gastrointestinal function, but eating too much may lead to gastrointestinal dysfunction. Bananas should not be eaten when determining indole or catecholamine in urine. Immature banana meat can prevent (take it at the same time) or treat (take banana meat after taking butazone 15 days) the gastric ulcer induced by butazone in guinea pigs. It also has protective effect on gastric ulcer induced by forced immobility in rats, but it is ineffective for patients induced by prednisone. This protective effect may be due to the reduction of gastric acid by 5- hydroxytryptamine and the relaxation stimulation of banana meat. It has no anticholinergic effect and no central inhibitory effect. The juice of banana leaves and stems (containing 5- hydroxytryptamine, but not dopa or norepinephrine) can contract the isolated ileum of guinea pigs and duodenum of rats, and increase the blood pressure of dogs and rats. These effects can be antagonized by atropine and tolazolin. Bananas also have beauty effects. We often see bananas. Many people know that banana peel is cold and ginger juice is warm. Mashing banana peel, adding ginger juice and stirring evenly for external use can warm blood vessels and achieve the purpose of diminishing inflammation and relieving pain.
Function of banana peel: banana peel and ginger juice can relieve inflammation and pain. Banana peel is rich in polyphenols, which can inhibit pathogenic bacteria and viruses. It has antioxidant, antimutagenic and anticancer functions, and has been widely used in food, medicine and cosmetics industries. Banana peel is rich in organic acids and can also inhibit a variety of germs.
1. Clever treatment of hypertension: take 30 -60 grams of banana peel and decoct it to treat hypertension.
2. Skillful prevention of stroke: Take 30 grams of fresh banana peel and take it instead of tea, which can dilate blood vessels and prevent stroke and angina pectoris.
3. Treatment of skin itching: Banana peel contains cannabinoids, which can inhibit the growth of bacteria and fungi. Experiments show that banana peel is effective in treating skin itching and beriberi caused by fungi or bacteria. Patients can choose fresh banana skin and rub it repeatedly on itchy skin (tinea pedis, tinea manus, tinea corporis, etc.). ), or mash it, or fry it for a few days and then wash it with water.
4. Treatment of oral ulcer: banana peel is a very good Chinese medicine. Its dried product is boiled in water with another Chinese medicine, Huotanmu (also called Huotanmu), and seasoned with appropriate amount of brown sugar. Drinking it can cure oral inflammation and ulcers (commonly known as lamps); It also has a laxative effect.
5. Treatment of toothache caused by wind and fire: Wash the banana peel, put it in a pot, add rock sugar, and add some water to fry and stew. Drink soup twice a day.
6. hangover: 60 grams of banana peel with boiling water, clear the head.
7. Treatment of hemorrhoids and hematochezia: Put two bananas with skin on the fire and eat them while they are hot, which can improve hemorrhoids and hematochezia.