Benefits of chewing betel nut
1, dispelling cold: People in cold areas of high mountains often go to eat areca, because chewing betel nut can quickly raise the human body temperature, which can play a good role in keeping warm. Mainly because betel nut contains substances that can stimulate people to sweat, so as to achieve the effect of making the whole body warm.
2. Insecticidal: Another well-known function of betel nut is to kill insects, because the alkaloid contained in betel nut has an insecticidal effect, and it has a good insecticidal effect on human parasites. If there are ascaris, people can use eat areca properly to kill insects.
3, supplementary nutrition: Areca nut contains rich nutrients and a variety of beneficial substances, such as fat, alkaloids, choline, areca nut oil, etc., which can provide rich nutrition for the human body.
4. Xiaoshi: Areca catechu is also known as Xishi Dan, which also means that it has a unique function of relieving phlegm and has a good effect of digestion, so it has high value in medicine.
The disadvantages of chewing betel nut
1, chewing betel nut for a long time will lead to tooth blackening;
2, betel nut contains alkaloids that can cause cancer, which can easily lead to oral cancer, so many people change into oral cancer because of betel nut;
3, eating too much betel nut will have an impact on the digestive system, will damage the taste nerve and the secretion of some saliva, will seriously affect the absorption of nutrients, and will have bad consequences for malnutrition. Especially for children in the developmental stage, it will probably lead to stunting.
4, pregnant women are not suitable for eat areca, if a lot of food will lead to abortion.
5, chewing betel nut for a long time will increase the load of temporomandibular joint, which will cause joint pain.
How is dizziness after chewing betel nut?
1, Areca catechu contains a large number of alkaloids, such as arecoline, arecoline, norarecoline, etc., which have a certain stimulating effect on nerves, and the symptoms are nerve anesthesia, so hallucinations and dizziness will occur.
2. When areca nut is processed, Chinese herbal medicines such as ephedra and licorice are often added. Ephedrine has the function of exciting nerves, which can promote the contraction of blood vessels, and there will be dizziness after eating.
These are the advantages and disadvantages of chewing betel nut summarized in this paper. Through this paper, we can see that there are many advantages of betel nut, but some disadvantages are unavoidable. If you feel dizzy when eating betel nut, you should stop immediately and adjust the amount of food to better maintain your health.