Efficacy, Function and Side Effects of Areca catechu

Efficacy, Function and Side Effects of Areca catechu

The efficacy and side effects of betel nut, chewing betel nut can refresh you. This is a plant chewing gum. In Hunan, men, women and children will eat it. Betel nut is not all bad. Let's first understand the efficacy and side effects of betel nut.

Insecticidal effect and side effects of areca catechu 1

Areca catechu can repel and kill intestinal parasites such as tapeworms, roundworms, pinworms, hookworms and ginger worms. Its advantage is that it can repel insects by purgation.

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Areca catechu is good at dispersing bitterness, entering the gastrointestinal tract, promoting gastrointestinal qi, resolving food stagnation, and has the effect of stopping diarrhea and relaxing bowels. Can be used for treating qi stagnation, abdominal distension, constipation, damp-heat diarrhea and other diseases.

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Betel nut can not only promote qi circulation, but also benefit the effect of water. Chinese medicine believes that qi can help water transport. Therefore, betel nut can often be used to treat edema syndrome, unfavorable defecation, beriberi swelling and pain caused by cold and dampness.

Stop malaria

Areca catechu can intercept malaria and is often used with Changshan and Tsaoko to treat malaria.

Pharmacological effects of areca catechu

1. Areca catechu can make tapeworm flaccid and hard to break, so it can drive away the whole worm;

2. Arecoline has a strong paralyzing effect on Taenia solium, which can paralyze all parts of the whole worm, but only the head and immature segments of Taenia solium;

3. Areca catechu can paralyze or drive away worms, roundworms, hookworms, Clonorchis sinensis and schistosomiasis.

4. Areca catechu has a certain inhibitory effect on skin fungi, influenza virus and Helicobacter pylori.

5. Arecoline has cholinergic effect, which can excite cholinergic receptors, promote secretion of saliva and sweat glands, increase intestinal peristalsis, slow down heart rate, lower blood pressure, and eye drops can shrink pupils.

Side effects of betel nut

Areca catechu can cause cancer and is a first-class carcinogen. Long-term chewing will cause serious tooth wear and have certain addiction. Excessive consumption can produce poisoning symptoms, such as excitement, dull eyes, trembling all over, unsteady walking, strange or rude behavior; In addition, it can also lead to acute mental illness, including auditory hallucination, self-expansion, obsessive-compulsive delusion, delirium and so on.

Taboo of using betel nut

Generally everyone can eat it. Because betel nut has the function of relaxing bowels, it is contraindicated for patients with loose stool due to spleen deficiency or subsidence due to qi deficiency. Pregnant women should use it with caution.

Efficacy and side effects of Areca catechu 2. Efficacy and function of betel nut

1, betel nut can repel insects.

Repellent is one of the most important functions of areca catechu, which has excellent killing effect on many parasites in human body, especially on parasites such as pork tapeworm, blood-sucking worm and roundworm. It is usually used to treat intestinal parasites in children.

2. Betel nut can kill fungi.

Areca catechu has a strong inhibitory and scavenging effect on many fungi, especially on many fungi that can induce skin diseases, such as broad bean bacteria and Trichophyton purpurea. It can be used to treat fungal skin diseases with excellent therapeutic effect.

3, betel nut can lower blood pressure.

Betel nut also has the effect of lowering blood pressure after being used as medicine, especially its seeds. The substance extracted from betel nut seeds by scientists has obviously improved the transferase activity of human blood vessels. After the transferase activity increases, the blood pressure will naturally decrease, so Areca catechu has become an ideal Chinese herbal medicine for treating hypertension.

4. Betel nut can fight cancer.

Anti-cancer is also one of the most important functions of betel nut. Betel nut contains some polyphenols, which have a strong inhibitory effect on the formation of cancer cells in human body, and can reduce the formation of cancer cells. People can effectively reduce the incidence of cancer after eating betel nut.

Efficacy and side effects of betel nut. Efficacy and function of betel nut

Areca catechu is a palm plant and one of the four southern medicines in China. Areca nut contains many nutrients and beneficial substances needed by human body, such as fat, areca oil, alkaloids, catechins, choline and so on. Areca catechu has a unique function of preventing dysentery, which is the medicine fruit of doctors in past dynasties and is also known as "Xizudan". Because boils are generally related to irregular diet and qi stagnation, betel nut has been widely concerned for its medicinal properties because it can reduce qi, promote digestion and resolve phlegm. Even poets have a soft spot for betel nuts. Su Dongpo, one of the eight masters in the Tang and Song Dynasties, once wrote a famous sentence, "Red tides on the cheeks drunk betel nuts". Fresh betel nut has the wonderful effect that "hunger can make people full, and fullness can make people hungry". When eating on an empty stomach, it is full of qi and easy to digest after a meal, which can be described as a fairy fruit on earth. Li Shizhen, a medical scientist, recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that Areca catechu has many diseases, such as "reducing edema, dredging joints, invigorating spleen and regulating middle energizer, and treating heartache". Not only that, betel nut also has the effect of treating glaucoma, hypertension and expelling insects.

Betel nut is suitable for people:

Loose stool with qi deficiency and spleen deficiency is prohibited.

Dietotherapy effect of betel nut;

Betel nut tastes bitter, pungent and warm; Spleen, stomach and large intestine meridians; Re-settlement

Has the effects of expelling parasites, promoting digestion, lowering qi, inducing diuresis, relieving swelling and stopping malaria;

Indications: dyspepsia, dyspepsia, abdominal distension and abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation, hernia, beriberi, edema and malaria.

Betel nut practice guide:

1. For children with abdominal pain caused by insects, it can be used together with Hepuxi and Neem Root.

2. For those with abdominal pain and indigestion caused by insects, it can be used with Divine Comedy, Malt and Gentleman.

3, emotional disorders, qi is not conducive to asthma, chest and abdomen are full of boredom, do not think about diet, can be taken with agarwood, linderae and ginseng juice.

4. If there is edema, shortness of breath and bad stool, it is used with Notopterygium Rhizoma, Alisma Rhizoma and Phytolacca acinosa.

5. Those with excessive phlegm due to cold and dampness are often used with Changshan and Caoguo.

Hazards of betel nut:

According to medical statistics, betel nut chewing is closely related to oral cancer. For example:

1. More than 80% of oral cancer patients in Taiwan Province Province have the habit of chewing betel nut.

2. Due to the increase of betel nut chewing population in recent years, the incidence of oral cancer is increasing year by year.

People who chew betel nut are 20 times more likely to suffer from oral cancer than ordinary people.

It can be seen that chewing betel nut has a great influence on our health.

Secondly, spitting betel nut juice and residue everywhere will not only affect the city appearance, but also be unsightly. Some unscrupulous betel nut manufacturers often try their best to attract customers, especially "betel nut beauty" can be seen everywhere, which has a bad influence on children's physical and mental health and good social customs.

Moreover, because of the high profit of selling betel nuts, some people plant betel nuts on slopes that are not suitable for planting betel nuts, resulting in soil erosion. When the typhoon comes, it is easy to produce mudslides, causing people's lives and property losses.

(1) Common hazards:

Chewing betel nut will not only make teeth blacken, wear and tear, shake and gum atrophy, but also cause periodontal disease, oral submucosal fibrosis and oral leukoplakia, and also lead to oral cancer. According to the survey, 88% patients with oral cancer have the habit of chewing betel nut.

(2) Serious health hazards:

1. Betel nut induced precancerous lesions:

(1) Oral submucosal fibrosis;

Common in buccal mucosa, followed by jaw area. The oral mucosa will have burning sensation, ulcer and whitening, which will eventually lead to difficulty in opening mouth and swallowing. Some patients with oral submucosal fibrosis will become oral cancer.

(2) Oral leukoplakia:

Common in buccal mucosa, tongue, floor of mouth and lip angle. Mucosal leukoplakia will gradually change from innocence to mixed white, and some patients with leukoplakia will become oral cancer.

2, oral cancer:

Areca nut, commonly known as Ziziphus jujuba seed, contains arecoline, which is carcinogenic. The added "lime" helps to fight cancer. The World Health Organization (WHO) came to the conclusion after consulting the literature related to betel nut and cancer;

(1) Chewing tobacco and betel nut have been identified as the cause of human cancer.

(2) Smoking and chewing betel nut can easily lead to oral cancer and throat cancer.

For your health, please don't chew betel nut. For example, smokers should quit, because the combination of the two is more likely to cause oral cancer, laryngeal cancer, pharyngeal cancer and esophageal cancer, and smoking and chewing betel nut combined with drinking will have a stronger carcinogenic effect.

(3) Tooth damage

Because of frequent chewing action, it exceeds the normal load, resulting in tooth occlusion (wear) and gum jitter.

The population chewing betel nut is growing rapidly, and it is estimated that Taiwan Province Province has exceeded 2.6 million. The average age group of betel nut chewers also showed a downward trend. The universality of betel nut chewing has also expanded from low social and economic status and working class to white-collar intellectuals. Areca catechu is Hong Chunzu's favorite and "green gold" in the eyes of farmers, but it is the biggest killer of people's health and water resources in Taiwan Province Province. According to statistics, more than 50,000 hectares of betel nut orchards in Taiwan Province Province (equivalent to the size of two Taipei cities) not only cause about 4 billion metric tons of water loss every year, but also seriously damage forest land. Moreover, Chinese people spend more than 90 billion yuan a year on eat areca, which is equivalent to the cost of half a highway, which is quite amazing. What is even more frightening is its carcinogenic and cancer-promoting effects, which makes oral cancer in China become the top ten causes of cancer death. Therefore, how to promote the prevention and control of betel nut and reduce Chinese people's hobby of chewing betel nut has become one of the priorities of health units.

Physiological hazards: In addition to oral diseases and oral cancer, excessive consumption will produce poisoning symptoms, such as excitement, dull eyes, trembling all over, unsteady walking, strange or rude behavior, etc. In addition, it can also lead to acute mental illness, including auditory hallucination, self-expansion, obsessive-compulsive delusion, delirium and so on.

Economic hazard: spitting betel nut juice will be prohibited from being fined; Eat areca is expensive, increasing the burden of expenditure; Medical expenses.

Social hazards: teeth turn black and mouth turns red after eating for a long time, which is quite indecent.

Environmental pollution: Spitting betel nut juice everywhere not only pollutes the environment and is unsightly, but also the bacteria in the spit betel nut juice will be scattered with the wind and inhaled into the public lungs.

Soil and water conservation: Because Areca catechu has shallow roots, large-scale planting will seriously damage soil and water conservation.