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ABSTRACT:
This plant i.e. Musa paradisiaca is well known and showed various medicinal properties as mentioned in the literature. The activities of various plant product of Musa paradisiaca especially roots (anthelmintic, antiscorbutic, depurative etc.); fruits (anthelmintic, aphrodisiac, antiscorbutic etc.); flowers (dysentery, diabetes, ascites, dropsy etc.) and ash, burning plant (antiscorbutic, anthelmintic etc ). In view of these medicinal uses, we tried to collect some info+rmation about this plant in the form of review and tried to focus on this plant and their relevance to human health.
KEYWORDS Musa paradisiaca, roots, fruits, flowers, human, health.
INTRODUCTION:
Musa paradisiaca (Banana; family Musaceae)is one of the most popular fruits in the world and it is considered to be derived from two wild species i.e. Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. This fruit especially banana is considered to be a rich source of carbohydrates and potassium while they are low in protein content [1, 2]. In banana, peels are used in the form of fertilizer or most of the time people will discarded. This is happening not only in India but also observed in all over the world. In addition, various part of banana products are used for various purposes e.g. ripe fruit showed enormous production of alcohol and also used as medicinal properties for the treatment of gastric ulcer.
As per the literature, there is significant amount of potassium were observed as compared to sodium ions in the peel samples of banana [3-5]. One of the most familiar example is observed in one of these diseases e.g. hypertension (higher sodium to potassium ratio). Similarly, phosphorus is also reported in the peels of banana and it is involved in various biological processes i.e. bone mineralization, energy production, cell signalling and regulation of acid-base homeostasis. In addition, zinc and copper are also reported and its function is total different.
One of the functions of essential elements i.e. zinc which is required for insulin regulation and is still under the control of pancreatic tissues. In one of the studies observed in unripe plantain peel that showed higher amount of zinc compared with other peel samples.Similarly, copper is also being used for various neurological disorders i.e. Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease etc. [4-6] As per the literature, more than hundreds of varieties of...