betel leaf

Traditional dental health is closely related to betel leaves for the Indonesian people certainly know if it has a lot of betel leaf properties especially in the field of dental and oral health. Betel leaf for dental benefits is no doubt, and until now grandparents still use to clean the teeth of betel leaves (this is my experience kampong hehehe, maybe when my grandmother and grandfather modern betel leaf was not using anymore). Some areas use betel leaf as a means of ritual, and of course a betel leaf is a medicinal plant which is very popular.
 
Description of plants  
These vines can reach 15 m high Betel stem greenish brown, round, segmented and is home to root out. Heart-shaped leaves are a single, pointed, growing alternately, stemmed, and issuing a bad odor when crushed. Length is about 5-8 cm and width 2-5 cm. The flowers have a plural form of grains and leaves the protective ± 1 mm elliptical. In the male grain length is about 1.5 - 3 cm and there are two short stamens being on female grain length is about 1.5 to 6 cm where there is the stigma of three to five pieces of white and yellowish green. Buni fruit fruit, round grayish green. Roots heels, round and yellowish brown.Ingredients and benefits 
Essential oil of betel leaf oil contains fly (betIephenol), sesquiterpenes, starch, diatase, sugar and leather and chavicol substances that have a deadly germs, antioksidasi and fungicides, anti-fungal. Betel nutritious eliminate body odor caused by bacteria and fungi. Betel leaf is also holding the bleeding, heal the wounds of the skin, and gastrointestinal disorders. It also is furrowed, remove phlegm, saliva shed, hemostatic, and stop the bleeding.
 
Purpose:
Cough Sprue Bronchitis Pimple Whitish Toothache due to holes (leaves) Scarlet fever Bad breath Irregular menstruation Asthma Sore throat (leaf and oil) Swollen gum (sap)
 
Overseas Use
Eczema Burn Scabby (pyodermi) Mange ft Ulcer Nosebleed Sore eyes Bleeding gums Reducing milk production Eliminate itching
 
Information
Usually for a bloody nose medicine, used two pieces of fresh leaves of Piper betle, washed, rolled and then inserted into the nose Iubang.

Warning Chewing betel leaves too many vulnerable and in a long time been associated with mouth and throat cancer squamous cell carcinoma.

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