【Materia Medica】
Sweet plantains, or plantains, belong to the grass class. The leaves are more than a foot long and one or two feet wide. Its stems are as soft as taro, and they are all overlapping skins wrapped around each other. The roots are like taro, blue in color, and as large as the axle of a wheel. The flowers grow at the ends of the stems, as large as wine glasses, and resemble lotus flowers in shape and color. Each of its seeds has a flower house and grows with the flowers. Each flower is completely closed, each with six seeds, and is ordered sequentially.
【Pharmacology】
◎Banana leaf is mainly used to treat the initial onset of sore swelling, you can grind the leaf into the end, mix it with ginger juice, and apply it to the sore.
◎ When epileptic seizures occur, it will salivate, dizzy and depressed, and will soon faint, drinking banana oil to induce vomiting, the effect is very good.
◎ Banana oil cures head wind and heat, quenches thirst, as well as burns and burns. Combing a woman's hair with banana oil can make a woman's hair long and black.
【Plantain Guiyuan Health Dumpling】
1/2 cup red beans, 1 tablespoon pine nuts, 1/3 cup oatmeal, 1 cup glutinous rice, 1 tablespoon goji berries, 2 chestnuts, 1 guiyuan, 3 red dates, banana leaves.
◎ Remove the seeds of the red dates, chop the cinnamon meat and slice the chestnuts. Wash the red and white glutinous rice, red beans, pine nuts and oats, soak all the ingredients in water and set aside. Cook all the above ingredients in a rice cooker, cook and stir, add pine nuts, goji berries, etc., then wrap them in banana leaves, and steam them before eating.
【Story】
Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a Feng Gongzi, who was reading poems and chanting in the study hall in the evening of summer, and suddenly saw a woman dressed in green passing by the window, her appearance was very pure and beautiful, he stepped forward and asked her name, and the woman called herself "Banana Clan". Feng Gongzi had evil thoughts and pulled the woman into the room, and the woman broke free and left in a hurry, but Feng Gongzi ripped off a piece of his clothes, and at night he put it under the pillow. When I woke up the next morning, I saw that the torn corner of the clothes had turned into a banana leaf, and later I learned that this woman was originally a banana essence.