saging (banana)

Folkloric

• Young leaves used for cool dressing of inflamed and blistered surfaces and as cool application for headaches.

• Powdered roots used for anemia and cachexia.

• Mucilage prepared from seeds used for catarrhal and mild inflammatory forms of diarrhea.

• Juice of tender roots used as mucilage for checking hemorrhages from the genitalia and air passages.

• In China, juice of roots used as antifebrile and restorative.

• Juice of the trunk applied to scalp to increase hair growth and prevent hair from falling.

• In West Africa, used for diarrhea.

• In Gambia, sap of inflorescence used for earaches.

• In French Guiana, flowers used as emmenagogue.

• In the Gold Coast, sap from roots given as enema for diarrhea.

• In Cambodia, Java and Malaya, juice from trunk used for dysentery and diarrhea.

• Juice from flowers, mixed with curds, for dysmenorrhea and menorrhagia.

• Flour made of green bananas used for dyspepsia with flatulence and acidity.

• Ripe fruit, mixed with half its weight in tamarinds and a little salt, is a valuable food in chronic dysentery and diarrhea,

• Cooked flower used for diabetes. Flowers also used as cardialgic.

• Sap of the flower used for earaches.

• In Bangladesh used for treatment of diarrhea.

• In Western Ghat in India, leaves are used for bandaging cuts, blisters and ulcers.

• Ripe bananas combined with tamarind and common salt used for dysentery.

• In traditional medicine in India, used for diabetes.

• Used as hemostatic in Brazil and India.

• In South-Western Nigeria, green fruits used for diabetes.

 

source: stuart xchange

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