Is it bad to eat too much betel nut?

According to the survey, there are more and more people in eat areca, China. Everyone likes eat areca very much. Have you eaten too much betel nut? What happens when you eat too much? Let Bian Xiao tell you.

1, in the early days of eat areca, the first chewer will face redness and chest tightness; Just like smoking, the first experience in eat areca was not very comfortable.

2, but for the betel nut family, the feeling is different. Feel refreshed and happy, sometimes it will produce euphoria, and it will also make people feel energetic, improve work efficiency and be more sensitive. A cool and sweet smell, full of breath, intoxicating. Promoting fluid production and quenching thirst is comparable to drinking Coca-Cola. Cold weather can keep you warm. If you smoke at the same time, the stimulation will be stronger and more lasting.

3. Areca catechu has a certain hormone-like effect, which can refresh the brain, but at the same time it may have a dizzy reaction similar to cigarette poisoning. Excessive consumption can produce poisoning symptoms, such as excitement, dull eyes, trembling all over, unsteady walking, strange or rude behavior; In addition, it leads to acute psychosis, including auditory hallucination, self-expansion, obsessive-compulsive delusion, delirium and so on.

4. Gastrointestinal reaction and oral reaction. Especially now, the finished betel nut may be pickled and preserved by adding lime in the production process, which may lead to oral ulcers and even other problems. It shouldn't be a problem to eat occasionally, but eating a lot every day will cause some discomfort and even damage the oral cavity and gastrointestinal mucosa.

Therefore, generally speaking, you should not eat more betel nuts, so you should identify betel nuts processed by regular manufacturers and avoid adding too many substances harmful to your health.

What are the disadvantages of eating too much Penang?

Eating too much betel nut is actually harmful to the body, but many people don't know much about it. If we understand the dangers of betel nut, I think we will make people around us less eat areca.

1, betel nut contains carcinogenic alkaloids, which leads to oral cancer. Nowadays, many people suffer from oral cancer because of betel nut.

2. Chewing betel nut for a long time will make people's teeth black. After chewing betel nut, the residue will vomit on the ground, which is red, like blood, affecting public health.

3, because calcium and betel nut juice fill the mouth to form dental calculus, and because of long-term hard chewing, dentin is consumed, and even teeth are cracked or broken.

4. Oral submucosal fibrosis and leukoplakia caused by chewing betel nut, that is, the prophase lesion of oral cancer, its clinical symptoms are difficulty in opening mouth, pain, numbness, whitening of oral mucosa and ulcer.

Eating too much betel nut has a great influence on the digestive system. This is because the betel nut juice scale pollutes the black lips and cheeks, which affects the appearance, damages the taste nerve and saliva secretion, hinders the digestive function, and the betel nut residue stimulates the stomach wall, leading to inflammation and even perforation of the gastric mucosa, affecting nutrient absorption and causing malnutrition. Especially the child eat areca is prone to malnutrition.

6. Eating too much betel nut is harmful to human body. If pregnant women eat too much, it may lead to miscarriage.

How to eat betel nut

There are many ways to chew betel nut, and people in different places chew betel nut in different ways.

1, people in Hainan chew betel nut in the same way as people in Taiwan Province province.

First cut the betel nut into three or four pieces, which are a bit like oranges, and then peel off the skin and fruit base of the betel nut (because the skin is not chewy and the fruit base is bitter). At this time, it is generally not possible to put betel nuts directly into the mouth, but to match the leaves of a vine, commonly known as "water chestnut leaves" in Hainan. Water chestnut leaves are coated with some lime and wrapped in triangles. Finally, put the lime-coated leaves and betel nuts into your mouth to chew. If you chew betel nut directly without lime leaves, it will be boring. That's what "a mouthful of betel nut and a mouthful of ash" means.

2. There is a saying in Hunan that Xiangtan is golden and Yiyang is silver.

The customs of eat areca, a native of Hunan, are flourishing in these two places. The way of eat areca in Hunan Province is different from that of Taiwan Province Province. Taiwan Province probably eats fresh food, so his mouth is bright red. Hunan eats all bacon, just like Hunan people like to eat bacon. Wo is another name for Hunan betel nut. Spindle-shaped betel nut looks like a boat after being cut. After buying dried betel nuts from Hainan, they should be pickled, which is called "making betel nuts" in Hunan dialect. Areca nut is not made of salt, but of maltose (and lime, etc.). The caramelized betel nut has an imperceptible sweetness and can be chewed for a long time. Every family has its own secret recipe in the process of pickling betel nuts. Pickled betel nut is placed on the stall and placed in a large porcelain basin, which is brown and black. The stall owner provides chopsticks for you to flip the betel nut up and down, which are generally not big. After cutting, the meat slices are thick and the core sticks to the shell. The stall owner will add cinnamon oil, bean powder, sesame and other seasonings to the cut betel nut according to your requirements. You can put it in an entrance first, and then watch the stall owner slowly wrap other betel nuts for you with cigarette paper.

Every place has the habit of eat areca, and many people eat cigarettes or beer with betel nuts. Very exciting.

The function of betel nut

Although eat areca has many disadvantages, there must be a lot of people like the meaning of one thing. Let's see what kind of functions areca nut has.

1, Areca catechu is one of the four major 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.

2. 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.

3. Areca catechu has insecticidal effect, and is used for tapeworm with ascaris lumbricoides, Jiang Ye's disease and insect abdominal pain. 4, betel nut is similar to eating Chili, which stimulates the whole body to heat up. When it is cold, it also has the effect of driving cold and keeping warm.

Not only that, betel nut also has the effect of treating glaucoma, hypertension and other diseases.