1, just picked fresh fruit is green, shaped like a duck egg and slightly shorter, first boiled in water for about two hours, so that it becomes brownish red, and then fumigated with smoke for seven days

seven nights, it became a dried fruit. Wash with water, scalded with boiling water, sprayed with a small amount of saccharine water, stored for about twenty-four hours, before you can eat

use.

2, before eating with a knife to the betel nut dissected into two to four petals, point with lime and caramel boiled into the brine, you can also point on a drop of cinnamon oil, into the mouth

chewing repeatedly, sweet and astringent, aromatic full mouth.

3, direct consumption. Mainly chew the skin and spit it out when it has no more flavor.

Nutrition

Betel nut contains a variety of nutrients and beneficial substances needed by the human body, ? The main components of the raw betel nut fruit are 31.1% phenols, 18.7% polys

sugar, 14.0% fat, 10.8% crude fiber, 9.9% water, 3.0% ash and 0.5% alkaloids. Betel nut also contains more than 20 kinds of

trace elements, 11 of which are essential trace elements. Betel nut seeds contain 0.3%-0.6% of total alkaloids, mainly betel nut alkaloids,

and contains a small amount of betel nut hypoallergenic alkaloids, demethyl betel nut alkaloids, isodemethyl betel nut hypoallergenic alkaloids, betel nut parabasic alkaloids and high betel nut alkaloids, etc., which are all collected with tannins

there. There are also ellagitannins, fats, mannitol, galactose, sucrose, catechin, epitaxanthin, colorless anthocyanins, betel red pigments,

saponins and dimers, trimers and tetramers of various proto-cornithin. The composition of fatty acids contained are: lauric acid 19.5%, myristic

acid 46.2%, palmitic acid 12.7% stearic acid 1.6%, oleic acid 6.2%, linoleic acid 5.4%, dodecanoic acid 0.3%, tetradecadienoic acid 7.2%,

and also contains amino acids. Among them, proline accounts for more than 15%.?

Medicinal use

According to the drug regulatory department, there are 225 medicines containing betel nut in China. According to the Unified Medicine, betel nut has the efficacy of "killing worms, destroying stagnation, lowering qi, moving stagnation, moving

water and removing dampness", and was once used to treat parasitic infections such as tapeworms, hookworms, ascaris lumbricoides, roundworms and gingerbread worms. Betel nut and Wu Yao,

Ginseng, incense composition of the four grinding Tang main treatment "seven feelings of Qi reversal, asthma, nuisance boredom does not eat," the folk have a week after the birth of the baby to take

Simo Tang tradition, is said to be beneficial to the child's intestines and stomach, and no tummy in the future.

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