Benefits of eating betel nut

The history of chewing betel nut should also be quite long. The great poet Su Dongpo of the Song Dynasty once said, "Red tide on the cheeks, drunk with betel nut." Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty gave a detailed description of betel nut: "Betel nut is not ordinary, and the wood is also special. The big one is three feet around, and the tall one is nine feet high... But it can't stand frost and cold, so it can't be planted in the north." The big one is three feet around, and the tall one is nine feet high. Such a huge betel nut tree undoubtedly reminds us of the song "Picking Betel Nut": "Betel nut grows on the tall tree, whoever climbs up first will taste it first..." This beautiful and gorgeous melody makes people have infinite reverie. It can't stand frost and cold, so it can't be planted in the north, so Hainan and Lingnan are the birthplaces of betel nut. The ancient book "Classic of Mountains and Seas" also has a record of "Black Tooth Country", that is, because the juice of betel nut is purple-red, chewing betel nut for a long time will make people's teeth turn black. When betel nut was first discovered, it was not chewed but used as medicine, with the effects of expectorant and cough, digestion and sobering up, chest expansion and vomiting, and deworming. Later, people gradually discovered that it has unique charm because it can be chewed, which is why it has been passed down to this day and is quite vital.

[Warning] Betel nut is a Class 1 carcinogen on the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer list of carcinogens. Chewing betel nut can increase the risk of oral cancer.

Benefits of Betel Nut

Betel nut is a plant of the palm family and one of the four major southern medicines in my country. Betel nut fruit contains a variety of nutrients and beneficial substances needed by the human body, such as fat, betel nut oil, alkaloids, catechins, choline and other ingredients. Betel nut has a unique function of preventing malaria. It is a medicinal fruit used by doctors of all dynasties to treat diseases. It is also known as "Malaria-Washing Pill". Because malaria symptoms are generally related to irregular diet and stagnation of qi, while betel nut can reduce qi, digest food and eliminate phlegm, it has attracted widespread attention for its medicinal properties. Even poets and writers have a special liking for betel nut. Su Dongpo, one of the Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties, once wrote the famous sentence "Red tide on the cheeks, drunken betel nut". Fresh betel nut has a wonderful effect of "hunger can make people full, fullness can make people hungry". When eaten on an empty stomach, the qi is full as if full, and it is easy to digest after a meal. It can be said to be a fairy fruit on earth. Medical scientist Li Shizhen recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that betel nut can "reduce edema, open joints, strengthen the spleen and regulate the middle, and treat heartache accumulation" and many other diseases. In addition, betel nut can also treat glaucoma, high blood pressure, and deworming. Betel nut contains alkaloids such as arecaine and arecoline. Betel nut fruit contains concentrated tannins (proanthocyanidins), which have not yet been proven to have anti-aging "free radical" effects. Chewing the fruit is slightly addictive, and the extract has been proven to have anti-depressant (antidepressant) effects. Arecoline has been used to treat parasites (tapeworms, hookworms, roundworms, roundworms, ginger worms, etc.).

Betel nut is suitable for people:

It is forbidden for those with qi deficiency, spleen deficiency and loose stools.

Betel nut therapeutic effects:

Betel nut tastes bitter, spicy and warm in nature; it enters the spleen, stomach and large intestine meridians; it is heavy and sinking.

It has the effects of expelling parasites, eliminating stagnation, lowering qi, promoting water circulation, reducing swelling, and stopping malaria;

It is mainly used to treat worm-induced malnutrition, indigestion, abdominal distension and pain, heaviness after diarrhea, constipation, hernia, athlete's foot, edema, and malaria.

Betel nut practice instructions:

1. For children with abdominal pain caused by worms, it can be used together with Artemisia selengensis, neem root, etc.

2. For patients with abdominal pain caused by parasites and indigestion, it can be used in combination with Shenqu, malt, and Quisqualis chinensis.

3. For those with emotional disorders, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and loss of appetite, grind agarwood, lindera strychnifolia, and ginseng into juice and drink it.

4. For patients with severe water retention, with symptoms of edema all over the body, shortness of breath, and difficulty in defecation and urination, it can be used in combination with Notopterygium wilfordii, Zexie, and Rhizoma Coptidis.

5. For patients who often suffer from malaria due to cold, dampness, phlegm and fluid, it can be used together with Dichroa serrata and Amomum villosum.