Banana for Hypertension Treatment

By: Liana, Steffi, Valentia

Pharmaceutical Engineering 4

SGU, BSD City

Friday, 17 June 2011

Banana (Musa paradisiaca)

About Banana

According to research, banana has been found in Papua Nugini

for more than 10,000 years ago.

The consumption of banana in Indonesia 5kg/year/person

Every part of Banana tree has a function:

-The roots for medicine purpose

-The stem for making raft, etc.

-The leaf for food packaging

-The fruit can be eaten

Type of banana

Banana that can be straight away consumed:

-Pisangambon

-Pisang raja

-Pisangbarangan

Banana that needs to be processed first before consumed:

-Pisangtanduk

Nutrients of Banana

99 gram (gr) calorie

1,2 gr protein

0,2 gr fat

25,8 miligram (mg) carbohydrate

0,7 gr fiber

8 mg calcium

28 mg phosphor

0,5 mg iron

44 RE vitamin A

0,08 mg vitamin B

3 mg vitamin C

72 gr water

Use of Banana1. Source of energy:

sugar contain in banana will provide energy for body shape and muscle

2. Pregnant women:

Contain of high folic acid which is good for fetus for development of cell.

Two bananas provide enough folic acid (58 microgram).

Banana has glucose that can reduce morning sick.

3. For anemia:

Banana contain of iron which helps to stimulate the production of hemoglobin

4. Gastric acid stomach:

Banana help to neutralized the stomach acid and coating the stomach

5. Liver disease:

Banana help to boost appetite (2 banana with 1 spoon of honey)

Use of Banana6. Burned skin

The leave is use to cover the burn part in form of ash mix with coconut oil

7. Against stress:

Banana contains potassium which helps to normalized the heart beat, sending

Oxygen to brain, and control osmotic water in the body. When stress, amount

of potassium in body decreasing. With banana, the potassium can be balanced.

8. Decreasing chance of getting stroke:

According to The New England Journal of Medicine, by consuming banana

everyday can reduce the chance of getting stroke by 40%

9. Control body temperature:

Banana can help to lower down

emotional of pregnant women and

Physical temperature

Use of Banana10. Wart treatment:

Stick the banana skin on the wart

11. Control body weight:

Banana is often use for diet purpose since it contain lots of carbohydrate

12. For smoker:

Banana help to overcome addiction of nicotine for smokers. It contain vitamin

B6 and B12 to neutralize nicotine in the body.

Banana also contain bromelain enzyme

13. Diabetes patient diet:

In some area such as Sulawesi, Gorontalo,

banana is use for diabetes diet.

Use of Banana14. Drunk medicine:

Using banana milkshake with honey can use for drunk medicine. The honey

Increase glucose in blood, while the banana help to calm the stomach.

15. PMS:

Vitamin B6 in banana control the blood glucose that can influence mood during

Menstruation

16. Beauty purpose:

Prevent dry skin, smoothen skin, hair growth, prevent pimples.

Hypertension According to www.healthstats.com, approximately one billion peoplehave high blood pressure. Threeout of tenpeople suffer from hypertension in Indonesia. Hypertension patients usually consume diuretic, beta-blocker, calcium channel blockerwith chemical side effect.

Banana for hypertension treatment

- Angiotensin-Converting-Enzyme ( ACE )

inhibitor molecules

- Lower sodium percentage

- Kalium

Angiotensin Converting

Enzyme

ACE plays an

important role

in regulating

blood pressure

by converting

angiotensin I to

angiotensin II.

Low Sodium Levels

• Pisang raja has low sodium level

• Sodium level plays an important role on the incidence of hypertension

• Sodium and chloride are the main ions in extracellular fluid

• Too much sodium sodium’s concentration in extracellular fluid increasing

• To normalize it, the intracellular fluid is pulled out

so that the extracellular fluid volume increased

• The volume of blood is increased

hypertension

• Sodium also tends to narrow the diameter of

blood vessels

• The increase of blood volume and the diameter

of blood vessels constrict

the blood pressure will increase

• Main sodium sources: sodium chloride,

monosodium glutamate, sodium carbonate

• Sodium in our body come from food or

beverages, and excreted through urine and

sweat

• Normal kidneys can regulate sodium that has

been excreted in urine, so the total amount of

sodium in our body is slightly varied from day

to day.

• The changes in the total amount of sodium is

related to the changes in the total amount of fluid

in body

• Loss of sodium in body does not mean the

sodium concentration in blood is decreased

• It causes the decrease in blood volume

• If the blood volume is decreased, the blood

pressure will also decrease

• Otherwise, blood volume will increase if there is

too much sodium in the body, thus blood

pressure will increase

• Since pisang raja has low levels of

sodium, pisang raja can be consumed by

hypertensive patients to lower the blood

pressure

Potassium

• Potassium is the main ions in intracellular fluid

• Consuming potassium too much will increase its

concentration in intracellular fluid, thus it tends to

draw the fluid from extracellular and lower the

blood pressure

• Unlike sodium, potassium enlarge the diameter

of blood vessels blood pressure will decrease

• One example of good main sources: pisang raja

• Pisang raja has high level of potassium but low

level of sodium

• By eating pisang raja regularly, we could

compensate sodium consumption from food

intake

• The inverse ratio of sodium and potassium may

be very helpful to stabilize the blood pressure

Valentia Lian

a

Steffi

So, eat more banana everyday!