Many friends like to eat bananas. Bananas can not only relieve constipation, but are also good for the skin. However, the banana peels that we throw away also have many effects. Let's take a look!
The effects of banana peels
1. Leather Cleaner
Banana peels can be used to wipe leather clothes and leather sofas, which can maintain the luster of the clothes and extend the "life" of the leather. It can also be used to clean greasy places, such as range hoods and stoves, with instant results.
2. Ripening
Banana peels have a ripening effect. You can put them with fruits that need to be ripened, and you can eat ripe fruits soon, such as mangoes and kiwis.
3. Preventing and treating chilblains
Banana peels can also solve the problem of skin chapping caused by dryness in winter. After rubbing the affected area for several consecutive days, the skin can become smooth again. Mashed banana peels mixed with ginger juice can reduce inflammation and relieve pain. Rubbing banana peels on hands and feet can prevent and treat chilblains. In addition, dried and powdered banana peels are also a good beauty product.
4. Treating sores, carbuncles, and swellings
Mashed bananas (with the peel) applied externally have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. It is suitable for sores, carbuncles, and swellings.
5. Treating pruritus (skin itching)
Banana peels contain bananin, which can inhibit the growth of bacteria and fungi. Experiments have shown that banana peels are very effective in treating skin itching and athlete's foot caused by fungi or bacteria. Patients can repeatedly rub fresh banana peels on the itchy skin areas (tinea pedis, tinea manuum, tinea corporis, etc.), or mash them into a paste, or boil them in water for washing. Continuous use for several days will be effective.
6. Sobering up
Boil 60 grams of banana peel in water and drink it.
7. Treating oral ulcers:
Banana peel is a good traditional Chinese medicine. Its dried product, along with another traditional Chinese medicine called Huotanmu, can be boiled in water with an appropriate amount of brown sugar for flavor. Drinking this can treat oral inflammation and ulcers; it also has a laxative effect.
8. Treating wind-fire toothache
Wash the banana peel, add rock sugar to a pot, and add an appropriate amount of water to stew. Drink the soup twice a day.
9. Treating hemorrhoids and bloody stools
Roast two bananas with their peels on a fire, then eat them while they are hot. This can improve hemorrhoids and bloody stools.
10. Treating warts
Apply a banana peel to the surface of a wart (commonly known as a verruca) to soften it and cause it to fall off little by little until it is cured. This method can be used to treat warts on the head and face. Apply the banana peel multiple times, pinch it off little by little with your fingers, and it will not recur after being cured.
11. Treating high blood pressure
Corn Silk and Banana Peel Drink
Ingredients: 50 grams of corn silk, 50 grams of banana peel.
Preparation: Wash the corn silk and banana peel separately, chop them, put them into a clay pot together, add 600 ml of water, simmer over low heat until the liquid is reduced to 300 ml, and filter the juice through a clean gauze to make the drink.
Efficacy: Clears heat and detoxifies, promotes urination and lowers blood pressure. It is mainly indicated for all types of hypertension.
12. Preventing stroke
Drink a tea made by decocting 30 grams of fresh banana peel. It can dilate blood vessels and prevent stroke and angina pectoris.
13. Treating stubborn cough, dry cough
Boil water with four banana peels until the liquid is about the amount of a rice bowl. Drink one bowl every night for a week. This can treat stubborn coughs and dry coughs.
14. Making skin moist and smooth
People with dry facial skin can use the inner side of a banana peel (the side facing the flesh) on the face, let it air-dry for about 10 minutes, and then rinse with clean water.
15. Eating raw banana peels can fight depression
The peels of unripe bananas, whether chopped, boiled in water, or juiced (the unripe, greenish peels of unripe bananas chopped