Plantains are a close relative of the banana and tend to be mistaken for them. But in one of the 120 countries that grow much of the world’s supply of plantains like Nigeria, Uganda, Colombia and Cameroon people know the distinction between the two. That’s because plantains are starchier, contain less sugar than bananas and are much more versatile as a cooking ingredient. Also, unlike bananas, plantains are typically cooked before eating.
Unripe plantain has a sticky gum, which is some how hard to remove if it gums on your hand, so our forefathers, recognized this gum content of an unripe plantain as having the power to cover up those wound or sore in your intestine, thereby silencing them forever.
Benefits of plantians
- Plantains are very reliable sources of starch and energy.
- Plantains contain a high amount of dietary fibre which helps ensure healthy bowels and
reduces constipation. - Plantains have more vitamin C than bananas. Consumption of foods rich in vitamin-C helps the body develop resistance against infectious agents and scavenge harmful oxygen- free radicals.
- Plantains have more vitamin A than bananas. In addition to being a powerful antioxidant, vitamin A plays a vital role in the visual cycle, maintaining healthy mucus membranes, and enhancing skin complexion.
- As in bananas, they too are rich sources of B-complex vitamins, particularly high in
vitamin-B6 (pyridoxine).
Pyridoxine is an important B-complex vitamin that has a beneficial role in the treatment of neuritis, anemia, and to decrease homocystine (one of the causative factors for coronary artery disease (CHD) and stroke episodes) levels in the
body. - Plantains also contain folates, niacin, riboflavin and thiamin. Folates (folic acid) are
essential for healthy pregnancy. - Plantains also provide adequate levels of minerals such as iron, magnesium, and
phosphorous. Magnesium is essential for bone strengthening and has a cardiac-protective
role as well. - Plantains have more potassium than bananas. Potassium is an important component of
cell and body fluids that helps control heart rate and blood pressure, countering negative
effects of sodium. - Plantains are famed to be diuretic and can help prevent kidney and bladder problems.
- Plantains ease the discomfort associated with the menstrual period.
How to prepare the medicine.
Get two or three fruits of an unripe plantain, peel out the bark and wash if you desire to do that.
Cut them in smaller pieces, may be 5 mm or so, just cut them in smaller portions, so as to aid its fermentation.
Secondly, get a 4 or 5-liter plastic container, with cover, and then wash it thoroughly and allow it to dry.
Fill the container with the already pieced unripe plantain.
Next you Now fill the container with clean water, to at least it’s half or more, but don’t fill to the brim.
Cover the container tightly and Shake it together with its contents, and then store in a good place for fermentation to take place within two or three days.
Then after a period of two to three days, check your concussion, it is now ready for use. Don’t be afraid to take it or give it to someone you know, as none of the contents is poisonous as you can see for yourself. -
Disclaimer
This is not in any way intended to condemn modern science and its medical treatments, it is a way of improving self-therapy and the use of alternative medicines to cure people, especially, using natural herbs and roots. It is a solution I administered on myself when I had this illness, so I cannot completely promise that it must work for all who decided to try it, just have faith because faith is the mother of all healing in life.
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