Musa
Plant · Musaceae
Musa suits patients with constipation, haemorrhoidal conditions, and urinary catarrh. The banana flower tincture produced constipation with rectal fullness and clinically cured profusely bleeding haemorrhoids. A syrup made from banana juice is indicated in chronic bronchitis with marked dyspnoea and insufficient expectoration.
Key symptoms
- Costiveness with fullness about anus in people of regular habits
- Bleeding haemorrhoids resisting other treatment (cured clinically)
- Discharge of large quantities of mucus with urine
- Dull aching pain in bladder region
- Dry rough extremely astringent taste in mouth and fauces
- Dull heavy frontal headache
- Rumbling in stomach and bowels with expulsion of flatus
Musa sapientum. Banana. N. O. Palmaceæ. Tincture of the flowers.
Clinical
Constipation. Cystitis. Hæmorrhoids (bleeding).
Characteristics
Jenner (M. H. R., ix. 549) proved the tincture of Banana flowers and produced costiveness and sensation of fulness about anus, in a person of regular habits; and he cured with it a bad case of bleeding hæmorrhoids. It also produced pain in the bladder and passage of mucus with urine. Crichton Campbell commends bananas baked in their skins as an ideal food, or even a "cure," for brain workers, nervous persons, and anæmics (H. W., xxxii. 478). A syrup made with the juice of bananas extracted by heat is commended as a remedy in chronic bronchitis with insufficient expectoration and marked dyspnœa.
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