MUSA PARADISIACA

Plant Name: MUSA PARADISIACA

English Name: Banana,

Local Name:

• Banana,
• Keyla, Kela, Kadali,
• Pisang, Plantain.

Family: Musaceae (banana family).


Uses:
Inflammation, rheumatism, gripe, diabetes, antihypertensive. Unripe bananas and plantain fruits are astringent, and used to treat diarrhea. The leaves are used for cough and bronchitis. The roots can arrest hemoptysis and posses strongly astringent, and anthelmintic properties. Plantain juice is used as an antidote for snakebite. Other uses are asthma, burns, diabetes, dysentery, excessive menstrual flow, fever, gangrene, gout, headache, hemorrhage, inflammation, insomnia, intestinal parasites, sores, syphilis, tuberculosis, ulcers, warts . In Suriname's traditional medicine, the red protecting leaves of the bud was used against heavy menstrual bleeding. Other therapeutic uses were against diarrhea, dysentery, migraine, hypertension, asthma and jaundice.