Banana Medicinal Uses.
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Science and Technology - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
Banana (Genus Musa) cultivars are grown from long time throughout the world. All parts of banana have nutritional and traditional medicinal uses. Many in vitro studies , animal model studies and clinical studies suggest that various parts of banana act as food medicines for treatment of diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cancer, ulcers, diarrhoea, urolithiasis, Alzheimer’s and infections. Other medicinal uses are in surgical dressing, pain relief, food and pharmaceuticals, nano medicine, pollution control, apoptosis and cell cycle.
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N Jyothirmayi
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