Bananas are popular as a delicious product, but their use in folk medicine is not too common. Nevertheless, the banana pulp has an enveloping effect on the mucous membrane, reduces irritation and perspiration in the throat, and besides, due to the significant content of vitamin C, it has a beneficial effect on immunity . In addition, bananas almost do not cause allergies, which makes them a very convenient cough remedy.
Milk with banana from cough
Ingredients:
- banana medium size - 1 piece;
- milk - 1 glass.
Preparation and use
Banana with a fork or blender is ground to a puree, then poured hot milk, mixed thoroughly and brought to a boil. Take a drink you need hot, but not scalding, at night.
Banana with honey from cough
Ingredients:
- banana medium size - 1 piece;
- water - 2 tablespoons;
- honey - 1 tablespoon.
Preparation and use
In a banana crushed to the state of a gruel, add water and heat on a small fire (not bringing to a boil) for 10 minutes. At the end of the preparation, add honey to the gruel and mix thoroughly. This mixture is taken on a tablespoon up to 5 times a day, while it is desirable not to swallow it at once, but slowly to dissolve.
Such a medicine from a banana well envelops the throat, helps with perspiration and irritation, and also can soften attacks of dry cough .
Banana jelly from coughing
Ingredients:
- banana medium size - 1 piece;
- water - 1 glass;
- sugar - 1 tablespoon.
Preparation and use
Banana should be rubbed with sugar, then pour boiling water, bring to a boil and insist for half an hour. This jelly is taken in half a cup every 2 hours, for 5 days.
By itself, a banana is not an allergen, so contraindications to its use are usually associated with other components. So, the recipe from bananas with honey from a cough can not be used for allergies to honey and bee products, with milk - with intolerance to dairy products.