Areca nut contains many nutrients and beneficial substances needed by human body, and also contains many pharmacological active ingredients, mainly including alkaloids, phenolic compounds, fatty oils, various amino acids and various minerals. Areca nut is the main component of areca nut chewing gum, and it is the fourth most widely used hobby in the world after tobacco, alcohol and caffeine. The specific functions and functions of areca nut are as follows:

1, insecticidal, Areca catechu has insect repellent and insecticidal effects on intestinal parasites such as tapeworms, roundworms, roundworms, hookworms and ginger worms. And deworming through diarrhea;

2, digestion, betel nut is pungent and bitter, enters the gastrointestinal tract, is good at gastrointestinal qi circulation, can eliminate stagnation, and has the effect of stopping diarrhea and relaxing bowels. It can be used to treat food retention, abdominal distension and constipation, as well as various damp-heat diarrhea and other diseases;

3, qi and water, betel nut can both qi and water. Chinese medicine believes that qi can help water transport, so betel nut can often be used to treat edema, dysuria and beriberi caused by cold and dampness;

4, malaria, betel nut can cure malaria, often combined with Changshan, Amomum tsao, etc.

Betel nut has high nutritional value, but it also has some side effects on human body. If you chew betel nut for a long time, it may cause oral submucosal fibrosis, which is the direct cause of oral cancer. According to medical statistics, betel nut chewing is closely related to oral cancer. The incidence of oral cancer, due to the increasing number of people chewing betel nut in recent years, the probability of oral cancer of people chewing betel nut is about 20 times higher than that of the general population.