The efficacy and function of betel nut

Betel nut is a specialty of southern China. It is also an excellent Chinese medicinal material and one of the four major southern Chinese medicines. It has many functions and effects. Friends who are interested in this can come with me to see what the functions and effects of betel nut are.

[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.

The efficacy and function of betel nut

1. Betel nut can repel parasites

Deworming is one of the most important functions of betel nut. It has a very good effect on eliminating many parasites in the human body, especially pork tapeworms, blood-sucking worms, roundworms and other parasites. It can be used to treat intestinal parasites in children.

2. Betel nut can kill fungi

Betel nut has a strong inhibitory and clearing effect on many fungi, especially various fungi that can induce skin diseases such as Trichophyton thunbergii and Trichophyton violaceum. It has excellent elimination effect and can be used to treat fungal skin diseases with relatively good therapeutic effect.

3. Betel nut can lower blood pressure

Betel nut has the effect of lowering blood pressure when used as medicine, especially its seeds. The substances extracted by scientists from betel nut seeds have a significant effect on improving the activity of transferase in human blood vessels. After the transferase activity is increased, blood pressure will naturally drop. Therefore, betel nut has become an ideal Chinese medicinal material for treating hypertension.

4. Betel nut can fight cancer

Anti-cancer is also one of the most important functions of betel nut. There are some polyphenol compounds in betel nut. These compounds have a strong inhibitory effect on the formation of cancer cells in the human body and can reduce the formation of cancer cells. People can effectively reduce the incidence of cancer after eating betel nut.