Betel nut health benefits and storage methods

Betel nut has many uses. Many people like to put betel nut in their mouths and chew it, which emits a fragrance.

[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.

Health benefits of betel nut

1. Arecoline is an effective anthelmintic ingredient. It has a strong paralytic effect on pork tapeworms and can completely paralyze the head and immature segments of beef tapeworms. It also has a paralytic effect on pinworms in vitro tests and can cause roundworm poisoning. In addition, arecoline can increase intestinal peristalsis, constrict bronchi, and dilate blood vessels.

2. Chewing betel nut can increase the tension of gastrointestinal smooth muscles, enhance intestinal peristalsis, and promote the secretion of gastric juice, thus helping digestion and increasing appetite.

3. Betel nut can effectively inhibit the activity of angiotensin-converting enzyme ( ACE ), and has a certain preventive effect on hypertension. In addition, betel nut also has the effect of preventing and fighting cancer.

How to store betel nut

You can wrap it in newspaper and put it directly into the refrigerator.

Food precautions

People with qi deficiency and loose stools due to spleen deficiency should not eat it.

Betel nut delicacies

Betel Nut Glutinous Rice Porridge

Ingredients: 15 grams of betel nut, 20 grams of Prunus mume seed, 15 grams of hemp seed , and 100 grams of glutinous rice.

Preparation method: First grind hemp seeds with water, filter out the juice, add to glutinous rice and cook until it is almost done; take betel nut and mash it, scald the hemp seeds with hot water, peel them, grind them into a paste and mix them with betel nut, add to rice porridge and cook for a while.

Efficacy: Regulating Qi, moistening the intestines, and relieving constipation. Suitable for people with chest fullness and constipation.

Betel nut pork ribs hot pot

Ingredients: 12 young betel nuts , half a pound of wolfberry, half a pound of pig intestines, and one pound of spareribs.

Seasoning : 6 cups of broth , a pinch of salt, 2 tablespoons of rice wine.

Method: 1. Clean the pig intestines, cut into 3 cm pieces, blanch the ribs, and wash the betel nuts.

2. Place the spare ribs on the bottom of the casserole, and add the pork intestines, betel nuts, broth, salt and rice wine in this order. Bring to the boil and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes.

3. Add wolfberry and simmer for 5 minutes.

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Betel Nut Beauty Tea

Ingredients: 10 grams of betel nut, 10 grams of fried radish seeds, and appropriate amounts of tangerine peel and white sugar.

Method: Boil the three ingredients in water, remove the residue, warm it with tea, and add sugar when drinking.

Remedies for curing diseases

1. Strengthen the spleen, stimulate appetite and eliminate stagnation: Take 6 grams of ginger and 9 grams of betel nut. Wash and slice the ginger, slice or crush the betel nut, then put them into a casserole, add 400 ml of water, decoct the water and take it orally, twice a day , 1 dose per day.

2. Treatment of beriberi: Take 12 grams of betel nut, 10 ml of ginger juice , and an appropriate amount of children's urine, and decoct in water.

3. To treat abdominal pain caused by worms in children: Betel nut can be used together with Artemisia selengensis, neem root, etc.