Plantain contains high levels of methyl methyl. If you are deficient in potassium, eating too much will still have an effect. However, if you eat well, you should have enough potassium, so eating it is basically ineffective.

Medicinal value

Plantain and banana belong to the same family and have similar appearances, but the fruits are not edible and have certain medicinal value.

The smell is sweet, cold and non-toxic.

Functions and Indications

1. All swelling and poisoning. Crush banana roots and apply to the affected area.

2. Mobile red rubella. The treatment is the same as above.

3. Wind-fire toothache and insect toothache. Take a bowl of banana root juice, fry it hot and gargle.

4. Diabetes, irritability and heat in joints. Make juice from banana root and drink one or two at any time.

5. Bloody and astringent pain. Divide banana root and Eclipta grass into equal parts and decoct in water. Take it twice a day.

6. The initial onset of swelling and poisoning. Burn the remaining essence with banana leaves, grind it into powder, and apply it with ginger juice.

7. Heartache. Burn the remaining properties with banana flowers and grind them into powder. Two qian for each dose, and salt soup will be given as a gift.

Wild plantain grows in the mountains. Its fruit has many seeds and is astringent but not solid. Its fleshy stems can be used in vegetables. It is sweet in taste and cool in nature. It has the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, diuresis and reducing swelling, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.

How to eat

Before it blooms, pick its pseudostem and peel off the outer skin to get the inner stem like a fluorescent tube. Cut it into thin pieces and you can make: (1) Cold wild plantain heart . (2) Wild plantain heart stew.

Wild plantain

The young stem core of wild plantain is one of the stem wild vegetables commonly eaten by the Dai people. There are two main ways to eat the stem core of wild plantain: stir-fried and pickled. Side dishes fried with plantain stem hearts as the main ingredient include stir-fried plantain hearts with black bean paste and stir-fried plantain hearts with minced meat. To cook these two side dishes, cut the fresh wild plantain stems into slices and soak them in water. Use bamboo chopsticks to stir and wrap the filaments connecting each piece. Then crush the thin slices of the banana stems and stir them with bamboo chopsticks. Wrap in filaments, rinse once, pinch dry and prepare for frying. To stir-fry banana hearts with tempeh, stir-fry the tempeh in a pan until fragrant, then add crushed banana hearts and salt and stir-fry until cooked, then serve on a plate. To stir-fry plantain hearts with minced meat, first stir-fry the plantain hearts in an oil pan until they are five or six times ripe, then add the pre-chopped minced meat and stir-fry until cooked, add salt and MSG, mix well and serve. Fried plantain hearts made with black beans and minced lean meat are delicate and palatable, delicious, and have the effect of removing greasiness and losing weight. It is a unique ethnic food.