Banana with milk: the benefits and harm, cooking recipes
Traditional methods of treating colds will always be relevant.Thanks to them, you can enhance the effectiveness of drug treatment. Most of the folk remedies, especially those made from herbs, are quite unpleasant and hard to use. With a pronounced bitter taste, the treatment of the respiratory tract becomes unbearable. But still there are recipes that allow at home to prepare and tasty and healthy medicine at the same time. This article will talk about the beautiful combination of banana and milk, able to cure even the most hopeless cough.
The peculiarity of milk and banana products
The compatibility of banana with milk is quite good and very useful. If you mix them in a blender, you get an excellent cure treatment. And also banana with milk combines well with honey, which undoubtedly enhances their therapeutic effect.
Using bananas as an independent cough medicine is a useless exercise. Their composition is unable to provoke expectoration or thinning of sputum. But when mixed with milk and honey, they become an extremely effective means to combat the cough reflex. The use of banana-dairy products has no specific contraindications. It is recommended to refuse such a drink only in the presence of diabetes mellitus, recently suffered a stroke or heart attack.
Some milk-banana recipes contain ingredients that can cause diarrhea. Especially in cases where a person has a tendency to diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
The emergence of this home remedy occurred relatively recently. Everyone knows about the healing properties of milk. Drinking milk for diseases such as bronchitis and asthma is most effective. It is used to remove sputum from the throat.
Bananas, in turn, help maintain the microflora of the gastrointestinal tract. Their use is recommended even for small children. They help to get energy and promote the proper development and growth of the body. As a rule, the use of banana with milk as a folk remedy against cough does not cause any discomfort from the body.
This remedy is not a substitute for treatment prescribed by a doctor. But it can be used as an additional antiviral treatment, and this is its benefit. Due to the fact that the banana-milk mixture contributes to the balance of nerve cells, the process of removing the radionuclide is accelerated, and all this leads to a speedy recovery.
By drinking this drink, both an adult and a child’s body can more likely fall asleep. Once in the stomach, it neutralizes the harmful effects of pathogenic bacteria, and thereby increases the protective properties of the body. This triggers an increase in the immune system.
This medicine is especially effective with regular sore throat. As a rule, children's cough is formed during irritation in the throat, and not during inflammation of the bronchi. When used, the drink boosts immunity and stimulates the regenerative process in the nervous and respiratory systems.
What is in the ingredients used?
Pleasant and delicate taste milky-banana drink not only helps to reduce the symptoms of coughing, but also get incredible pleasure from drinking. Banana, by the way, is one of the richest sources of vitamins E, A and C. The latter is the most important component in the fight against colds and flu epidemics. Therefore, it is recommended to add to your diet ascorbic acid in the autumn and spring periods. It also helps to increase the resistance of the immune system to the occurrence of pathogenic microorganisms.
The fruit from the hot countries has a high content of fiber, glucose, carotene, zinc, calcium, magnesium, iron and phosphorus. A small part consists of various natural acids and enzymes. The percentage of nutrients is as follows:
- vitamin B — 19 percent;
- vitamin C - 11 percent;
- potassium allotted 14 percent;
- manganese - 13.5 percent;
- magnesium - 11 percent.
Milk, which is the second ingredient for the preparation of a cough remedy, enhances the vitamin-mineral composition of the mixture. Milk is rich in calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium and magnesium. Also, a considerable part of the allocated vitamins of groups B, E and C. But the main advantages of dairy products is the presence of amino acids essential for the human body. They are not produced by the internal organs of a person, but are required for its healthy and normal activity. It is worth paying attention to dairy enzymes: lactase, lipase, reductase, phosphatase and peroxidase.
What percentage of the fat content will be in the milk used will determine the caloric content of the milk-banana mixture. Many doctors agree that the use of whole-house milk is harmful for a growing children's body, and in this it is harmful. The child’s digestive system, which is not yet fully strengthened, is unable to digest such a heavy product.
So, when using milk with a high content of fat, one medium portion of the therapeutic drink will contain 158 kilocalories. When using low-calorie milk, the percentage of fat does not exceed 2.5, will contain 52 kilocalories.
Tasty and healthy recipes
As a therapeutic agent, the banana milk drink was first used in Brazilian cities, where, as is known, there is no shortage of fruits. On the territory of Russia, this drink is used with the ingredients peculiar to our region. As a rule, cocoa powder, a tablespoon of honey, granulated sugar and the like can be added to the mixture. Before preparing this healthy drink, it is advisable to make sure that the sick person does not have a propensity for allergies or idiosyncrasy to the ingredients used.
As an additional ingredient for the preparation of the drink will serve cocoa. This tool is recommended for use in unbearable tickling in the throat. First you need to stock up on one banana, three tablespoons of cocoa powder, one glass of milk. First of all, remove the peel from the banana and grind it to the consistency of mashed potatoes. Add cocoa powder to it in such a way that a homogeneous mass is obtained without any lumps.
Milk is poured exclusively after boiling. It must be hot. All components are thoroughly mixed. The resulting drink is recommended to use hot for a couple of minutes before bedtime. In order for the body to fully recover, just five doses of this medicine are enough.
It is worth mentioning that homemade medicines, including milk-banana mixture, are not recommended for long-term storage. In this connection, for each medication you will need to prepare a new batch.
In the classic cough medicine recipe, a spoon of honey is always present. And in a drink made from banana and milk, the presence of honey gives an incredibly delicate taste that you want again and again. This remedy is very effective in irritating the bronchial mucosa. With inflammation, they expand significantly and begin to fill with a substance such as bronchial secretion, also known as "sputum."
To date, there are two varieties of the classic recipe for cough medicine. In the first embodiment, all three ingredients are used. The second option is to exclude milk and use only honey and bananas. This recipe is for people with acute lactose intolerance.
Honey is known to be rich in antioxidants, enzymes, hormones and phytoncides.It also contributes to the speedy normalization of most cells in the human body during inflammation of any organs, helps to remove harmful bacteria from the respiratory system and kills harmful microorganisms that favor the appearance of bronchitis. Preparing a milk-banana drink with honey is very simple. First, peel the fruit and grind it into the mush. Add one teaspoon of honey and half a glass of boiled milk to it. This product is sure to please your child.
Another excellent cough medicine is lemon, and adding it to a medical mixture of bananas and milk will make it many times more effective. Lemon, like banana, is a fruit that is grown mainly in the tropics and has excellent antiviral properties. Worth mentioning that Freshly squeezed lemon juice in its pure form is not added to the milk-banana mixture, as this may provoke the coagulation of milk. Requires one more ingredient - decoction or tincture of mint.
First, grind the banana to a slurry and heat it in the microwave, after adding one tablespoon of honey. You can then add the remaining components. Mix well to get a uniform consistency. Delicious and healthy drink is ready. It is advisable to drink it within a day, because after twenty-four hours this drug loses its beneficial properties.
Reviews
According to most reviews, babies are very responsive to the offer to drink a banana-milk cough drink. It not only helps to get rid of annoying cough, but also helps strengthen the immune system, which is extremely important after suffering the disease. Many parents shared their positive impressions that this home remedy is extremely effective, safe and affordable.
In the absence of allergic reactions to the products used, there were no adverse reactions from the body of adults and children. Most reviews note the fact that babies are attracted by the mouthwatering scent emanating from home remedies. In this connection, the process of treatment and recovery is much easier.
With regular use of a mixture of milk and banana, the fight against harmful microorganisms proceeds in an enhanced mode. Already after the first use, the first signs of recovery are noted. The phlegm begins to thin and better expectorated. And due to the relatively low cost and availability of all components used to prepare the drink - repeat treatment can be daily.
But do not neglect the advice of experts. Do not forget that this drink is only a prophylactic and is used as an additional treatment. They can not be replaced by a doctor prescribed medication. Otherwise, you risk to aggravate the inflammatory process in the body.
For information on how to make cough banana milk, see the next video.