We have a wrong notion that blue, yellow, white, red color capsules alone are medicines. Look at the natural coverings provided to fruits, vegetables, nuts, pulses etc by the Nature. Nature doesn’t do anything without a reason; it is for us to understand the benevolent purpose of the nature, for providing such colors to them. The color has the curative properties as well.

Take banana for example. By taking this fruit, imbalance in the body in relation to water and fire aggravation is corrected. Banana increases the water element in the body. It decreases the heat in the body. It is tonic as well as diuretic and helps expel the stool. Some people complain of gastric allergy after taking the bananas. Such individuals should take one or two seeds of cardamom to correct this problem. But for those having cold, cough and coryza, banana is not recommended. However, banana is good for those who have excessive air and fire element. For ladies, if they have the problems of backache, leucorrhoea, white discharge, etc they stand to gain by the regular eating of banana. Those who have diabetes and obese people should avoid banana. If taken, it should be in moderate quantity, sparingly. For the colitis patients, ripe banana is suggested. For the sailor, to remain free from scurvy, onion, banana with lemon is suggested.

There are many varieties of bananas. The sizes also vary. Bananas are in green, red and yellow skins, small as well as big. For urinary disorders and spermatorrhoea (a disease, in which whatever eaten is digested immediately, the patient eats like the glutton and has the never-ending voracious appetite), banana is given with benefit. Banana helps  decrease the uncontrollable appetite and craving for eating more and more.

The stem of the banana tree is also taken with benefit. It is nutritious. There is also a superstitious belief that if the stem is given to a man, it nullifies or reduces libido. But this argument is without any foundation. The leaves of the bananas are used as plates for serving meals. The unripe banana also contains lots of vitamins, and it is a delicacy.

Nature helps us cure the disease through its flora and fauna but it is the extra smartness and greediness of the human beings, which complicate matters. The unripe bananas are cut, stored and ripened by the use of chemicals. Taking such bananas will not serve any useful purpose, rather they harm!