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).

In fact, traditional medicines derived from medicinal plants is no less powerful as a repellent fever. In fact, traditional medicine has its own advantages, the relatively lower toxicity than chemical drugs. Thus, relatively more secure, even no side effects when use correctly. You see, the content of medicinal plants are so complex and organic food can be synchronized with, a substance that is consumed in order to reconstruct the organ or system damage. In addition, the price is cheaper.

Three Types of Fever
However, before you know more about febrifuge plant, it first needs to understand the sense of fever. Fever in children can be categorized into three, namely:
1. Fever due to infection where the temperature can reach more than 38 ° C. The reasons vary, namely viral infections (like flu, smallpox, measles, SARS, bird flu, dengue fever, etc.) and bacteria (typhoid fever, sore throat, etc.).
2. Non infection fevers, such as cancer, tumors, or autoimmune disease a person (arthritis, lupus, etc.).
3. Fever physiological, such as lack of fluids (dehydration), the temperature is too hot, and so on.

Well, of the three, only the fever caused by infection and all that is needed noninfeksi febrifuge. To speed up the process of heat reduction, in addition to the traditional herb drinks, can also be given baluran or compresses to help.
As for physiological fever, no drugs needed fever because generally rarely exceed 38 ° C. To lower body temperature, given enough to drink a lot and grown in well-ventilated room or refrigerated.

Best Traditional Medicine for fever repellent
Here are some choice traditional febrifuge that can be tried. Important note, the doses listed on the following formula is the dose for adults. If you want to be given to children, read the rules for child dose and adjust the level of his age. (See box: Dose Safe for Children.)

1. Lempuyang emprit (Zingiber amaricans)
Compounds contain essential oils, which are useful sekuiterpenketon to reduce the heat. Commonly used is rimpangnya; yellowish-white color and taste bitter.
How: 10 grams Wash emprit lempuyang tubers. Grate and add 1 / 2 cup hot water and stir well. Once cool, squeeze, take the juice. Mix with 2 tablespoons (tbsp) cotton flower honey, mix well. Give 3 times a day.

2. Turmeric (Curcuma longa)

Contain essential oils, curcumin, which turmeron and zingiberen be useful as an antibacterial, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory (anti-inflammatory). Besides the fever, this mixture can also improve endurance. Commonly used is rimpangnya; color orange.

How: 10 grams Wash turmeric tubers. Grate and add 1 / 2 cup hot water and stir well. Once cool, squeeze, take the juice. Add the lemon 1 / 2 lime fruit. Mix with 2 tablespoons honey cotton flower, mix well. For a mixture of 3 parts of honey and turmeric, then give 3 times a day.

3. Sambiloto (Andrographis paniculata)

All parts of the plant can be used. Andrografolid contain lactones (bitter substances), diterpene, glucosides and flavonoids that can reduce the heat. Even in 1991 had held that research in Thailand sambiloto 6 g per day was as effective as paracetamol.

Here’s how: Boil 10 grams of dried leaves sambiloto, 25 g of dried turmeric root (thumb 2.5), and 200 cc of water. Boil until the water boils and live 100 cc, then strain. Once warm, add 100 cc cotton flower honey or mahogany, mix well. For a 3 part, give 3 times a day.

4. Centella asiatica (Centella asiatica L.)

Plant is also known by the name of this hoof leaves grow creeping ground cover. The leaves are green and shaped like a fan kidney. Contain triterpenoid, saponin, hydrocotyline, and vellarine. Useful to reduce the heat, revitalizing the body and blood vessels as well as to strengthen the structure of body tissue. Centella asiatica is also soothing or cooling, increase energy and food unappetizing.

Here’s how: Boil 1 handful fresh Centella asiatica with 2 cups water to boiling and 1 cup water to live. For the 3 parts and drink 3 times a day.

5. Curcuma (Curcuma xanthorhiza Roxb.)

Ginger looks like a white meet, only rimpangnya colors and different flowers. White ginger flowers yellow or pale yellow, while the meeting is white and white with a red border. Orange ginger Rhizome brown, while the rhizome part in meeting the young yellow-white.

Wild Ginger has a germacrene active substances, xanthorrhizol, alpha curcumena Betha, and others. Benefits as an anti-inflammatory (antiperandangan), antibiotics, and increasing the production and secretion of bile. Wild Ginger since the first widely used as a febrifuge, stimulate appetite, treat jaundice, diarrhea, ulcers, stomach bloating and sore.

How: 10 grams Wash ginger rhizome. Grate and add 1 / 2 cup hot water and stir well. Once cool, squeeze, take the juice. Mix with 2 tablespoons honey cotton flower, mix well. For the 3 honey and ginger mixture, then give 3 times a day.

6. Red onion (Allium cepa L.)

Shallots are often used as a spice in the kitchen. Contain essential oils, sikloaliin, metilaliin, kaemferol, kuersetin, and floroglusin.

Here’s how: Peel the red onions 5. Coarse and add grated coconut oil to taste, then balurkan to the fontanel and the whole body.

7. Leaves of hibiscus (Hibiscus Rosa Sinensis)

Apart from hibiscus leaves, you can also take advantage of cottonwood leaves or betel leaves. Flavonoida contains hibiscus, saponins and polyphenols. Kapok leaves contain flavonoida, saponins and tannins. Flavonoida containing betel leaf, saponins, polyphenols, and essential oil.

Here’s how: Wash the leaves, dry with a clean cloth, heat briefly over low heat so weak. Knead so weak, spread with coconut oil, the stomach and kompreskan head.

8. Meniran (Niruri Phyllanthus L.)

Higher plants reach 1 meter, growing wild, round-shaped leaves are compound leaves finned classified even. All parts of this plant can be used. Contain lignans, flavonoids, alkaloids, triterpenoid, tannins, vitamin C, and others. Useful to reduce heat and increase stamina.

Here’s how: Boil 1 handful fresh Meniran with 2 cups water to boiling and 1 cup water to live. For the 3 parts and drink 3 times a day.

9. Young coconut

Young coconut water contains many minerals, including potassium. At the time of heat, the body will issue a lot of sweat to lower body temperature. Well, to replace the sweat that out, perbanyaklah drinking coconut water.

Safe doses for Children
The use of medicinal plants with the proper dose will not cause side effects and safe. The following recommended doses for children:
Age Dose
Infant 1 / 8 dose adult
2 to 5 years old 1 / 4 adult dose
6 to 9 years old 1 / 3 adult dose
10-13 years old 1 / 2 adult dose
14-16 years 3 / 4 adult dose

In many large cities there are professional sellers who carry medicinal herbs around hawking as a healthy drink and refreshing. Besides herbal medicine is also produced in medicinal plants by large companies such as Herbal Water Feature, Nyonya Meneer or Djamu Djago, and sold at various drug stores in sachet packaging. This herbal medicine should be dissolved in hot water first before drinking. In the further development of herbal medicine is also sold in tablet form, extract and capsules.

Herbal usage generally used for the purpose of maintaining health. People often buy herbal carrying out of habit to consume as a health drink consumed daily.
In the manufacture of medicinal rice kencur, there are several variations of the materials used, but there are two main ingredients are always used, namely rice and galingale. Both these materials in accordance with the name of herbal medicine, and herbal medicine is always there, although not always the same composition of herbal medicine sellers. Other ingredients commonly added to herbal concoction is a seed of rice kencur Kedawung, ginger rhizome, kapulogo seeds, fruit acids, keys, keningar wood, turmeric, lemon juice, and nutmeg. As a sweetener used brown sugar mixed with white sugar, and often they also mix artificial sugar.

Generally not much cadar cadas, which is boiled and allowed to cool, then provided as needed. At first disangan rice, then pounded until smooth. Other materials in accordance with boxed dish pereputan using an iron mortar and pestle or stone. These two ingredients are then mixed, pressed, and filtered with a sieve or squeezed through a cloth material. Lemon juice mixed ingredients into the boiled water that has been available, stirring well. Next put in the bottles.