Banana peel

Introduction

"Banana peel" is the skin of banana. People usually peel off the skin to eat this fruit, which is the favorite of various flying insects. You can find it in many occasions where these insects are present. If you throw banana peel on the ground, someone will slip if they step on it, so please don't throw banana peels randomly. Banana peels are rich in protein, fat, sugar, and more than a dozen elements such as K, Ca, Mg, S, Fe, and Zn, and can be used as potential resources and raw materials.

Nutritional value of banana peel

1. For friends with dry face, you can stick the inside of a banana peel on your face (the inside of the peel facing the face), let it dry for about 10 minutes, and then wash it off with clean water to make your skin moisturized and smooth.

2. Banana peel is a very good traditional Chinese medicine. Boil its dried product with charcoal mother together, add appropriate amount of brown sugar for seasoning, and drink it to treat oral inflammation and also have a laxative effect.

3. Roast two bananas with the skin on over the fire, and then eat them while they are hot. This can improve hemorrhoids and bloody stools.

4. Banana peels can be used to wipe leather shoes, leather clothes, leather sofas, etc., which can maintain the gloss of leather products and extend the "life" of leather products.

5. Banana peel is rich in magnesium, sulfur, phosphorus, zinc, amino acids and other nutritional minerals, which are exactly what orchids need.

6. Banana peels can also solve the chapped skin caused by dryness in winter. After wiping the affected area for a few days, the skin can become smooth. Mashing banana peels and adding ginger juice can reduce inflammation and relieve pain. Rubbing hands and feet with banana peels can prevent and treat frostbite. In addition, banana peels that are dried and ground into powder are also good beauty products.

7. Banana peel contains banana peelin, which can inhibit the growth of bacteria and fungi.

The efficacy and function of banana peel

Banana peels are rich in magnesium, sulfur, phosphorus, zinc, amino acids and other nutritional minerals. Banana peels can treat high blood pressure, bloody stools, hangovers, toothaches caused by wind and fire, and oral ulcers. Banana peels can also make the skin moisturized and smooth, and solve the problem of chapped skin caused by dryness in winter.

Medicinal value of banana peel

1. Banana peel can make the skin moisturized and smooth: People with dry skin can stick the inside of the banana peel on their face (the inside of the peel facing the face), let it dry for about 10 minutes, and then wash it off with clean water.

2. Banana peel can cure oral ulcers: Banana peel is a very good Chinese medicine. Its dried product is boiled with another Chinese medicine called: Huotanmu (also called Huotanmao), and then seasoned with appropriate amount of brown sugar. Drinking it can cure oral inflammation and ulcers (commonly known as: Dengzhandang); it also has a laxative effect.

3. Banana peel can cure high blood pressure: Take 30g-60g of banana peel, boil it into a soup and drink it, which can cure high blood pressure.

4. Banana peel can treat skin itching: Banana peel contains banana peelin, which can inhibit the growth of bacteria and fungi. Experiments have shown that banana peels are very effective in treating skin itching and beriberi caused by fungi or bacteria. Patients can select fresh banana peels and rub them repeatedly on the itchy skin (tinea pedis, ringworm of the hands, ringworm of the body, etc.), or mash them into a paste, or boil them in water and wash them. Use them for several days and it will be effective.

5. Banana peel can prevent stroke: Take 30 grams of fresh banana peel and boil it into a soup and drink it instead of tea. It can dilate blood vessels and prevent stroke and angina pectoris.

6. Banana peels can cure warts: Apply banana peels to the surface of warts (commonly known as warts) to soften them and gradually fall off until they are healed. This method can cure warts on the head and face. Apply banana peels several times and pinch them off with your fingers. After they are cured, they will not recur.

7. Banana peel can cure toothache caused by wind and fire: Wash the banana peel, add rock sugar into the pot, add appropriate amount of water and boil. Drink the soup twice a day.

8. Banana peel can cure bloody stool: Take three banana peels, stew them and drink them. It can treat hemorrhoid pain and bleeding in stool.

9. Banana peel can sober you up: Boil 60 grams of banana peel in water and drink it to clear your head.

10. Banana peels can cure chapped skin on hands and feet: After washing your hands and feet with hot water, rub the inside of banana peels on your hands to prevent chapped skin on your hands and feet. If there are already cracks, rub the banana peels directly on the cracks. Generally, several uses can cure them.

Side effects and taboos of eating banana peels

Bananas promote gastrointestinal motility. Eating them on an empty stomach will cause the gastrointestinal tract to work prematurely, which is not good for health in the long run. Bananas contain a lot of magnesium. Eating bananas on an empty stomach will cause a sudden increase in magnesium in the human body and destroy the magnesium-calcium balance in the human blood, which will inhibit the cardiovascular system and is not good for health.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, fruits also have their own "four qi" properties. What are the "four qi" properties? The four qi refer to the "cold, hot, warm, and cool" effects that fruits will produce after being eaten. For example, people with a cold constitution have a low basal metabolic rate and produce less heat in their bodies. Therefore, when eating fruits, it is more appropriate to choose warm fruits and avoid cold fruits. Bananas are cold.

How to eat banana peel

Banana peel stewed with rock sugar

Efficacy: Treats toothache caused by wind and heat: toothache, more severe pain when chewing or tapping, red and swollen gums or pus discharge; thirst, red tongue, yellow tongue coating, and floating and rapid pulse.

Ingredients: 2 banana peels, 30 grams of rock sugar.

Method: Stew in water, 3 times a day.

Corn silk and banana peel drink

Efficacy: Clears away heat and detoxifies, promotes diuresis and lowers blood pressure; effective for hypertension, urinary tract infection and chronic prostatitis.

Ingredients: 50 grams of corn silk, 50 grams of banana peel.

Method: Chop corn silk and banana peel and put them into a casserole, add 600 ml of water, simmer over low heat until 300 ml is reduced, filter with gauze to take the juice.

Usage: Drink as tea.

Boil corn silk, banana peel and yellow gardenia in water

Efficacy: Hemoptysis, hematemesis and complications of liver and gallbladder diseases.

Ingredients: 30 grams each of corn silk and banana peel, 6 grams of gardenia.

Method: Boil corn silk, banana peel and yellow gardenia in water and drink it cold.

Banana Peel Sleeping Pillow

Effect: Helps you sleep.

Ingredients: 50-100g banana peel

Method: Put 50-100 grams of fresh orange peel, pear peel or banana peel into an unsealed small bag and place it next to your pillow before going to bed. When you go to bed, you will smell the fragrance of the peel.