What are the advantages and disadvantages of eat areca?

Eat areca has many advantages: for example, it can promote digestion, cure diseases and beautify the face.

Disadvantages of eat areca: But the World Health Organization Cancer Research Center recently warned the international community that chewing betel nut or betel nut will cause cancer. The World Health Organization Cancer Research Center pointed out that betel nut containing tobacco can cause oral cancer, pharyngeal cancer and esophageal cancer, while betel nut without tobacco can also cause oral cancer. Areca nut contained in various areca nut products can cause a precancerous lesion of oral cavity (oral submucosal fibrosis), which may turn into cancer at any time.

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.

Herbal Name: Areca catechu

Commonly used insect repellent. It is the dried and mature seed of areca catechu, a palm plant. Location: Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan and other provinces. Betel nut tastes bitter, pungent and warm. Meridian of stomach and large intestine. The efficacy of killing insects and promoting digestion, reducing qi and benefiting water. Indications: Insect accumulation, such as roundworm, tapeworm, pinworm, ginger worm, etc. , indigestion, epigastric pain, edema, beriberi, malaria and other diseases. Modern pharmacological experiments have proved that betel nut has the functions of insect repellent, antivirus and antifungal.

Betel nut can be eaten and chewed with salt water. It is normal for the first chewer to have a red face and chest tightness.

toxicity

Excessive arecoline causes salivation, vomiting, diuresis, drowsiness and convulsion. If it is caused by oral administration, you can gastric lavage with potassium permanganate solution and inject atropine.

In addition, people who often chew betel nut are prone to lip cancer and should not chew it often.