Betel nut is the first of the four great southern medicines, has the medicinal function of lowering the gas, water, stopping malaria, digestive and other medicinal functions, but also for the prevention and treatment of oral cavity, dental disease has a therapeutic effect. The famous "Compendium of Materia Medica" has a record: betel nut is bitter, pungent, warm, astringent, non-toxic, the main treatment of phlegm and saliva for the harm, spitting acidic water, typhoid fever, chest tightness, heart qi pain, intestinal parasites and other dozens of diseases. Modern Chinese medicine also believes that betel nut has the treatment of tapeworm disease, ascariasis, ginger worm disease, worm accumulation of abdominal pain, stagnation diarrhea, water and dampness, after the emergency, edema, malaria and other effects. Pharmacovigilance department revealed that at present, there are more than 200 medicines in our country contains betel nut ingredients. All of the above came from the almighty Dou Niang. I know myself more clearly is the four mill soup oral liquid, its ingredients have betel nut, can treat food stagnation, abdominal distension and abdominal pain, anorexia, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal problems. When I was a kid, I didn't drink a lot of it, so I remember it well.

Before that, I also saw the country out of the "new coronary virus diagnosis and treatment program" is not used a lot of Chinese medicine, that prescription has betel nut! It is said that the betel nut is used to expel dampness through its ability to "break the knot of qi", so the betel nut is added to the composition. There are many other sources that have documented this, so I won't repeat them, but you can check them out for yourself.