What are the benefits, functions and harms of betel nut?
What are the benefits, functions and harms of betel nut? Areca nut is the mature seed of the palm plant Areca nut. Betel nut is an evergreen tree that grows in tropical areas and is often cultivated on forest floors with sufficient sunlight and high humidity. So what are the benefits, functions and harms of betel nut? What are the functions, functions and harms of betel nut? 1
Betel nut is suitable for the following people:
People with qi deficiency and sunken stools and spleen deficiency and loose stools are prohibited from taking it.
Therapeutic effects of betel nut:
Betel nut is bitter, pungent, and warm in nature; it returns to the spleen, stomach, and large intestine meridians; it reduces weight and weight.
It has the effects of anthelmintic, eliminating accumulation, lowering Qi, moving water, reducing swelling, and intercepting malaria;
It is mainly used to treat parasitic malnutrition, food stagnation, epigastric distension and pain, and diarrhea. Post-dysentery, constipation, hernia, athlete's foot, edema, malaria.
Guidance on how to make betel nut:
1. For children suffering from abdominal pain due to insect infestation, it can be used equally with crane lice and neem root.
2. For those suffering from abdominal pain due to worm infestation and indigestion, it can be combined with Shenqu, Malt, Shijunzi, etc.
3. Those who suffer from emotional imbalance, shortness of breath, chest and diaphragm congestion, and no desire to eat can take it with agarwood, black medicine, and ginseng.
4. For those with excessive water-dampness, symptoms include edema all over the body, shortness of breath, and difficulty in defecation, it can be combined with Qianghuo, Alisma, Phytolacca, etc.
5. For those who often suffer from malaria caused by cold-dampness and phlegm-drinking, it should be used equally with Changshan and Caoguo.
Dangers of betel nut:
According to medical statistics, chewing betel nut is closely related to oral cancer. For example:
1. More than 80% of oral cancer patients in Taiwan have the habit of chewing betel nut.
2. The incidence of oral cancer has increased year by year due to the increase in the number of people chewing betel nut in recent years.
3. People who chew betel nut are 20 times more likely to develop oral cancer than the average person.
It can be seen that chewing betel nut has a great impact on our health. What are the effects and effects of betel nut and its harm 2
What are the effects and effects of betel nut
(1) Anthelmintic effect. Arecoline is an effective anthelmintic ingredient and has a strong paralyzing effect on pork tapeworms. It can completely paralyze the head and immature segments of beef tapeworms. It also has a paralyzing effect on rat pinworms in in vitro tests and can also paralyze roundworms. Poisoned. Food China
(2) Anti-viral, anti-fungal. Betel nut meat extract has different inhibitory effects on skin fungi such as Trichophyton violaris in test tubes. Decoctions and water infusions have certain inhibitory effects on certain strains of influenza virus A. These effects are related to its large amount of read quality.
(3) Break the accumulation and move the water. Arecoline can excite M-choline receptors, causing glandular secretion, increasing intestinal peristalsis, constricting bronchi, and dilating blood vessels. It can also excite N-choline receptors, causing excitement in skeletal muscles and ganglia, speeding up the movement of blood accumulation, and in vivo Water is delivered normally. Achieve the effect of moving water and breaking accumulation.
(4) Aids digestion. Arecoline can excite M-choline receptors. Chewing betel nut can increase gastrointestinal smooth muscle tension, enhance intestinal motility, and promote the secretion of gastric juice, so it can help digestion and increase appetite.
(5) Anti-hypertension. The Areca 11-5-C substance isolated from areca nut has been shown to significantly inhibit the activity of angiotensin transferase (ACE) in in vitro tests, and has a dose-effect inhibitory effect on the pressor responses of angiotensin I and H.
(6) Prevent and fight cancer. Intraperitoneal injection of polyphenolic compounds isolated from betel nut has a significant inhibitory effect on transplanted Ehrlich ascites cancer in mice, and has a moderately strong cytotoxic effect on HeLa cells in vitro.
(1) Common hazards:
Chewing betel nut not only causes teeth to become black, worn, shaken, and gums recede, causing periodontal disease, oral submucosal fibrosis and oral mucosa In addition to vitiligo, it can also lead to oral cancer. According to a survey, 88% of oral cancer patients have the habit of chewing betel nut.
(2) Serious health hazards:
1. Pre-cancerous lesions induced by betel nut:
(1) Oral mucosa Inferior fibrosis:
Commonly found in the buccal mucosa, followed by the palate area. The oral mucosa will have a burning sensation, ulceration, and whitening, eventually causing difficulty in opening the mouth and swallowing. Some patients with oral submucosal fibrosis will develop oral cancer.
(2) Oral leukoplakia:
Commonly found in the buccal mucosa, tongue, floor of the mouth and corners of the lips. Mucous membrane leukoplakia will gradually change from clear to mixed white, and some patients with leukoplakia will develop oral cancer.
2. Oral cancer:
Betel nut is commonly known as betel nut, and the "arecoline" in its ingredient is carcinogenic. The "lime" added is a cancer promoter. The World Health Organization reviewed the literature on betel nut chewing and cancer and concluded:
(1) Tobacco chewing together with betel nut has been determined to be a cause of human cancer.
(2) Smoking and chewing betel nut can easily lead to oral cancer and throat cancer.
For your own health, please do not chew betel nut. If you are a smoker, you must quit because the combined use of the two is more likely to cause oral cancer, laryngeal cancer, pharyngeal cancer and esophageal cancer. Smoking and chewing betel nut are also harmful. Combined with drinking alcohol, there will be even more carcinogenic effects.
(3) Injuries to teeth
Frequent chewing movements exceed the normal load, causing tooth wear (wear) and gums to shake.
The population of betel nut chewers is growing rapidly, and is estimated to have exceeded 2.6 million in Taiwan. The average age group of betel nut chewers has also been gradually declining; and the popularity of betel nut chewers has also increased. Low socioeconomic status and working class population, extending to white collar class high intellectuals. Betel nut is the favorite of the "red-lipped tribe" and the "green gold" in the eyes of farmers, but it is the biggest killer of Taiwanese people's health and water resources. According to statistics, Taiwan's more than 50,000 hectares of betel nut gardens (equivalent to 2 Taipei City), in addition to causing an annual loss of approximately 4 billion metric tons of water resources and serious damage to forest land, the Chinese people spend more than 90 billion a year on eating betel nut. The cost is equivalent to the construction of half a highway, which is quite astonishing. What’s even more frightening is that its carcinogenic and cancer-promoting effects have made oral cancer among the top ten causes of cancer death among Chinese people. Therefore, how to promote the prevention and control of betel nut and reduce the habit of chewing betel nut among Chinese people has become one of the priorities of health units.