Betel nut different versions

China's traditional Chinese medicine to

        Areca palm of tropical evergreen trees. The higher the xu, leaves many pinnate, lobular top such as tooth snapping off form, dry like coconut and a fine, there are three, four ear, each fruiting 3, four hundred a, says areca nut. Mainly produced in China guangdong, hainan and Taiwan and southern yunnan.

        Areca nut edible. The fruit of the Malay peninsula will cut fine, wrapped in a pepper kind of leaf, every food, but the food effect. The south China area also have often eater. Guangdong old marriage common courtesy, the date of their marriage, the man has sent men to the woman's family sent betel nut box of customs, box placed betel nut and green betel. At present, YueZhang mother-in-law top table receiving gift, finish, with betel nut give away all relatives and friends.

        Hainan people say, never drink eat areca, can make the person warm, buccal reddish hair, as if had a drink was bright in the eye, And had a drink after eating betel nut, but can refresh the sober, refreshing; Hunger eat areca, can make the person intestinal abdominal creating a burst of air, feel full, And in JiShi when eat areca, but it can help digestion, disappear hysteresis appetizer, is mysterious fruit also. However, the modern scientists study proved that areca nut contains a carcinogen, often more chewing mouth cancer, so now few people chew the person.

        Betel nut as blindly cure of traditional Chinese medicine of the ancient known. Ming dynasty great LiShiZhen necessary by the compendium of materia medica, "said:" the cure diarrhea after heavy, heart the pain, urine, sputum gas secret asthma nasty, cure the disease, the malaria."

        The sea medicine of materia medica "records:" run dolphin bladder the gas, five ke gas, wind air conditioning, beriberi, eat it up." The daughter party "sun-style alone at the end of this product is uniform, in addition to pinworm. The same is areca nut, because of different processing methods and the mining period, there are different types, such as Lang jade (meat), big belly skin, Lang dry, Lang shell, etc. "Chinese medicine dictionary of betel nut on the medicinal properties of a detailed records. (TianGuSheng)