We derive multiple benefits from plantain tree as a whole – every part of it is useful.
Plantain leaf is significant among these parts.People who eat food on plantain leaf live longer with good health.
Eating on plantain leaf will keep the hair dark up to old age and prevent greying hair at young age.Patients suffering from severe fire-burns can be made to sleep on plantain leaf. This will help reduce the heat.Packing food items in plantain leaves keep them safe from turning bad or losing smell.
Apply sesame oil to the body of infants and keep them lying on a plantain leaf exposing to morning sunlight from sometime. Vitamin ‘D’ will be absorbed from sunlight while the plantain leaf will keep the body cool and these two will prevent the infant getting any skin diseases.
For skin burns & wounds, etc, damp a bit of cloth with coconut oil and apply on them.Bind the area with a bit of plantain leaf. This will cure the wounds fast.Small pox & bedsore problems can be treated by lying on on plantain leaf which is spread with a little honey. Immediate cure is guaranteed.
Psoriasis, skin inflammation, and boils in the body may be covered with a binding of plantain leaf. Patients recovering or suffering from fire-burns can be made to lie on plantain leaf to relieve the irritation/pain from the fire-burns. Even the affected areas can be applied with oil and then bound with plantain leaf and keep it for 2 days.