Bananas are a treasure from the inside out.

Introduction: Did you know? Bananas are known as the "fruit of wisdom." It is the most easily available fruit on the market. Not only can it provide the human body with rich nutrition and various vitamins, but it can also make the skin soft and shiny, brighten the eyes, boost energy, and promote longevity!

1. Preventing and Treating Stomach and Intestinal Ulcers

Patients with gastrointestinal ulcers who often take phenylbutazone often experience gastric ulcer bleeding. Eating some bananas after taking phenylbutazone can completely protect the stomach from developing ulcers, because bananas contain a chemical substance that prevents stomach ulcers. It can stimulate the growth and reproduction of gastric mucosal cells, producing more mucous to protect the stomach.

Fried Bananas

2. Treating High Blood Pressure

Patients with high blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases often have excess sodium and insufficient potassium in their bodies, while bananas are rich in potassium ions. Potassium ions can inhibit the constriction of blood vessels by sodium ions and prevent damage to the cardiovascular system. Eating bananas helps maintain the potassium-sodium balance and acid-base balance in the body, keeping nerves and muscles normal, and coordinating myocardial contractions. Therefore, eating 3-5 bananas daily is beneficial and harmless for patients with high blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases.

3. Treating Depression

It has recently been discovered that bananas contain a substance that helps the human brain produce serotonin, making people feel happy, cheerful, and lively. Therefore, patients with depression should eat more bananas in moderation to reduce hormones that cause emotional low mood, and gradually dissipate feelings of pessimism, despair, world-weariness, and irritability.

Banana, Lily Bulb, and Tremella Soup

4. Treating Pruritus

Banana peels contain musaceae, which can inhibit fungi. Experiments have shown that using banana peels to treat skin itching and athlete's foot caused by fungi or bacteria is effective. Patients can select fresh banana peels and rub them repeatedly on the itchy area, or mash the banana peels into a paste for application, or wash with water boiled with banana peels. Continuous use for several days will yield results.

5. Treating Hemorrhoids and Blood in the Stool

Eat 2 bananas on an empty stomach daily, or stew them with the skin on and eat them with the skin.

Banana and Chinese Yam

6. Weight Loss

Because bananas themselves contain starch, they are very filling and make it difficult to consume excessive energy. Plus, it takes some time for starch to convert into sugar, so bananas will not cause blood sugar to spike in a short period. Therefore, they are less likely to store energy. From this perspective, bananas seem to be an excellent food for weight loss.

7. Face Mask

Mash half a banana, add an appropriate amount of milk, and mix into a paste. Apply to the face. Keep for 15-20 minutes and then wash off with clean water. It can make the skin fresh and smooth, and can remove acne and freckles from the face.

Banana Smoothie

8. Sobering Up

Use 60 grams of banana peel, decoct in water, and drink the soup.

Tips

How to choose bananas? Generally, unripe bananas have thick peels and little flesh, while ripe bananas have thin peels and more flesh. Ripe bananas have a bright yellow and shiny peel, green at both ends, the fruit is elastic, and it tastes soft, sweet, and fragrant. A green peel that is easily peeled off, with hard and astringent flesh and no sweet fragrance, is an unripe banana.

When selecting, look for bananas with a proper shape, large and uniform size, no damage or shedding on the whole bunch, and bright color. In addition, fresh bananas should have a smooth surface, no disease spots or trauma, an easily peeled skin, slightly hard flesh that does not feel soft when squeezed, and a sweet, non-astringent taste with no strange smell. If the peel is black and the flesh is soft, or the stem is black, dry, shriveled, it may have started to rot and should not be purchased. After buying bananas, hang them in a cool, ventilated place; do not put them in the refrigerator.

Crispy Fried Bananas

Special Reminder

Bananas are cold in nature, so people with a weak spleen and stomach, stomach pain, or diarrhea should eat them in moderation. Bananas contain a large amount of magnesium. Excessive consumption can significantly increase the magnesium content in the blood, which can inhibit the cardiovascular system, causing obvious numbness, muscle paralysis, drowsiness, and fatigue. At this time, driving is prone to traffic accidents. Therefore, medical experts believe that drivers should not eat bananas on an empty stomach.

Banana Pancakes