Depression
According to a survey conducted amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin. This is what will make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.

PMS (premenstrual syndrome)
If you have PMS as ‘guests’ coming, you do not need this pill or that, quite overcome by eating a banana. Vitamin B6 a banana contains regulate blood sugar levels, which can help the mood.

Anemia
Containing a high iron, bananas can stimulate the production of red blood cells and help in case of anemia.

High Blood Pressure
This unique tropical fruit is very high potassium, but low in salt, making it perfect for combating high blood pressure. So high that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit’s ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.

The brain’s ability
200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) easily helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.

Constipation
Because of the high in fiber, including bananas restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.

Drugs Hangover
One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. Pete will help calm the stomach and with the help of honey will raise blood sugar levels fall, while the milk soothes and re-will improve the level of fluid in the body.

Satiation
Bananas have antacid effect in the body, so if your chest feels hot due to overeating, try eating a banana for soothing relief.

Nausea in the Morning Day
Eat bananas between meals will help keep blood sugar levels and avoid vomiting.

Mosquito bites
Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of the bite of a banana skin. Many people managed to cope with itching and swelling in this way.

Nervous system
Pete B vitamins in large numbers, so that will help calm the nervous system.

Overweight
Research at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and crisps. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were high-pressure jobs.

The report concluded that, to avoid food cravings panic, we need to control blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels constant.

Stomach wound
The banana is used as food against intestinal disorders because the texture is soft and smooth. This fruit is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in some severe cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.

Adjust Temperature
Many other cultures see bananas as the fruit of ‘cold’ that can reduce body temperature and emotions of expectant mothers their children. In the Netherlands, for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) (The Confused Emotional Illness)
Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood booster, tryptophan.

Smoking
Bananas can also help people who want to quit smoking. Vitamin B6 and B12 they contain, along with potassium and magnesium, helps the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal

Stress
Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body’s water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate will increase, so will reduce the levels of potassium in the body. This can be balanced more with the help of high eating potassium petai.

Stroke
According to research in “The New England Journal of Medicine,” eating bananas as part of the daily diet would reduce the risk of death from stroke by 40%.

Louse
Those who like to turn to natural alternatives swear that if you want to turn off the ticks, take a piece of banana skin and place it in the louse. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster!

After reading all the above facts then you must believe that the banana is a natural remedy for various diseases. If you compare it with the apple, it has protein, 4 times more, carbohydrates over twice as much, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice as many vitamins and minerals.

Bananas are also rich in potassium and is the fruit with the best food value. So maybe it’s time you change the words that had known about the apple becomes: “A Petai a day keeps the doctor away” (eating an apple every day will keep you from your doctor).

A Glance History
The history of Arab medicine can be conveniently divided into three phases, characterized briefly as follows: Phase I, Greek into Arab; Phase II, Arab; and Phase III, Arab into Latin. The first phase was the period of translation of Greek scientific and philosophical works into Arabic. This started in the eighth century AC when Islam covered nearly two-thirds of the known world and contacts with the West were already established through Byzantium, Spain and Sicily. The Khalifs in Baghdad became aware of what was to be learned from Greek science, and in the reign of al-Ma’mun an institution was founded for this purpose, ‘The House of Wisdom’. The most famous of all the translators was Hunayn Ibn-Is’haq, a Nestorian Christian who became court physician to the Khalif al-Mutawakkil. He and his team translated a large number of medical works of Hippocrates and Galen, as well as philosophical works by Plato and Aristotle and mathematical works of Euclid and Archimedes. Hospitals and medical schools flourished during that period, first in Baghdad and later in the main provincial cities. After the first period of translation, when the chief works of Galen and Hippocrates were made available in Arabic, Christians lost their monopoly of medicine and several Muslims reached such a stature in medical science that they stood far above their immediate predecessors and were roughly on a level with the greatest of the Greeks. Some notable scholars of the science of Arab medicine are as follows: Al Tabbari (838–870), Al Razi (Rhazes) (846–930), Al Zahrawi (930–1013), Avicenna (980–1037), Ibn Al Haitham (960–1040), Ibn Al Nafees (1213–1288) and Ibn Khaldun (1332–1395).

The third phase of Arab medicine started in the twelfth century when European scholars interested in science and philosophy came to appreciate how much they had to learn from the Arabs, and set about studying Arab works in these disciplines and translating the chief of them into Latin. Probably the most outstanding writer on medicine in Arabic was Ibn-Sina or Avicenna as he was called in the West (dated 1037). Like Al Razi, he wrote on many subjects and was accounted to have been greater as a philosopher than as a physician. Nevertheless, his vast ‘Canon of Medicine’ is rightly acclaimed as the ‘culmination and masterpiece of Arab systematization’. It was translated into Latin in the twelfth century and continued to dominate the teaching of medicine in Europe at least until the end of the sixteenth century. There were 16 editions of it in the fifteenth century, one being in Hebrew, 20 editions in the sixteenth century and several more in the seventeenth century.

Herbal Remedies
Parallel with the development of pharmacy and pharmacology in the Arab world, there was also a similar development in alchemy and toxicology. Origins of these developments date back to the Greeks and Indians as well as to the empiric knowledge of the indigenous population. Alchemy was commonly practiced during the ninth century and many works have been written on this art. One good example of an independent manual on toxicology is Kitab as-Sumum, in five volumes, attributed to Shanaq, the Indian. It was translated into Arabic by al-’Abbas bin Sa’id al-Jawhari for caliph al-Ma’mun (reigned 813–833). It is a compilation from Greek and Indian sources of the ninth century. Poisons are discussed and how they can be detected by sight, touch, taste or by the toxic symptoms which they cause. Descriptions are given for poisoned drinks, foods, clothes, carpets, beds, skin lotions and eye salves, as well as narcotics and universal antidotes. A similar approach and information can be found in a later book on toxicology by Ibn Wahshiyyah during the early 900s. Another, equally important example is the book on ‘Poisons and their Antidotes’ by the famous Arab alchemist, Abu Musa Jabir ben Hayyan. In its six chapters, the author identifies poisons by their traits and natural origins, their modes of action, dosages, methods of administration, choice of drugs and the target organ, which is attacked by each particular poison, a proposition that is modern in its chemotherapeutic application. He also discusses general human anatomy, the four humors and how they are affected by purgatives and lethal drugs, warns against poisonous or poisoned matter, and prescribes antidotes. His discussion of body principles and subordinate organs and their function is similar to the previously mentioned Greek classification. Many of the antidotes described by Arab scientists like Abu Musa Jabir ben Hayyan, Ibn Wahshiyyah and Avicenna are still used nowadays by herbalists in our region.

Traditional vs Herbal
Despite all the marvelous advancements in modern medicine, traditional herbal medicine has always been practiced. Cultural beliefs and practices often lead to self-care or home remedies in rural areas and consultation with traditional healers. Alternative therapies have been utilized by people in our region who have faith in spiritual healers. The Mediterranean region has a very rich tradition in the use of medicinal plants for treating various ailments. In contrast to the above-mentioned historical importance of Arab medicine, research into the different modalities of complementary and alternative medicine in our region is relatively small and the current status of the know-how of Arab herbalists is limited. The number of scientifically well-oriented and experienced herbalists is few, but there are many who have found a prosperous trade, dealing with herbal medicine without a proper background. Research into the traditional medicinal herbs still in use has also been conducted in other Arab countries such as Syria, Morocco, Yemen, Egypt and others. According to recent surveys, the Middle Eastern region is covered with more than 2600 plant species of which more than 700 are noted for their use as medicinal herbs or as botanical pesticides. Currently, fewer than 200–250 plant species are still in use in Arab traditional medicine for the treatment of various diseases. The number of herbal-derived substances that are in use as traditional compounds is about 286. The most recent survey conducted on the potential uses of plant species from the coastal Mediterranean region in Egypt recorded 230 species belonging to eight families. Medicinal plants in the Middle East are becoming increasingly rare due to both the ongoing destruction of their natural habitat as well as the overharvesting of wild species and detrimental climatic and environmental changes. As a result, it is predicted that in semiarid regions such as the Middle East, a number of species will disappear within the next 10 years, particularly in the desert or dry areas where almost a third of native plants are found, unless urgent measures are taken to protect and preserve them. This is paradoxical at a time when there is an increasing interest worldwide in herbal medicines accompanied by increased laboratory investigation into the pharmacological properties of the bioactive ingredients and their ability to treat various diseases