The Benefits of betel leaves

These plants are rare in men but have to grow it is not so difficult, this is my experience growing dipekarangan Daun Sirih leaves the house it is easy to spread and easy maintenance. Linkage with the benefits of betel leaves one alternative to traditional medicine, especially with traditional dental health. Benefits of betel leaves to the teeth is no doubt, and until now the grandparents are still using betel leaves to clean his teeth (this is my experience, maybe when my grandmother and grandfather modern is not used anymore betel leaf). Some areas use betel leaf as a means of ritual, and of course a betel leaf herbs are very popular.

Description of plants

These vines can reach 15 m high Betel stem greenish brown, round, and is the place beruas out roots. The leaves are heart-shaped single, pointed, alternating grown, stemmed, and pulled out a delicious smell when crushed. The length of around 5 – 8 cm wide and 2 to 5 cm. The flower-shaped compound there is a grain and leaves protective ± 1 mm elliptical. In the male spikelets length is about 1.5 to 3 cm and there are two short stamens of females were in the 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, green-gray. Roots steep, rounded and yellowish brown.

Ingredients and benefits:
Essential oil of betel leaf oil contains fly (betIephenol), seskuiterpen, starch, diatase, sugar and tannin substances and who have the power chavicol deadly germs, antioksidasi and fungicides, anti-fungal. Betel potent body odors that eliminates bacteria and fungi generated. Betel leaf is also holding the bleeding, heal wounds on the skin, and gastrointestinal disorders. It also is wrinkled, remove phlegm, saliva shed, hemostatik, and stop the bleeding.

Uses:

Cough, Sprue, Bronchitis, Acne, Keputihan, because the holes Toothache (leaves), Dengue fever, mouth odor, irregular menstruation, Asthma, Sore throat (leaves and oil), swollen gums (sap)

Use of Outer:

Eczema, burns, Scabby (pyodermi), ringworm foot, Boils, Nosebleed, eye pain, bleeding gums, milk production Reduce, Eliminate Itchy

Description
Usually a bloody nose for drugs, used 2 pieces of Piper betle leaves fresh, washed, rolled and then inserted into the nose Iubang.

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