Milion Benefits of Betel Leafe

Dental health has traditionally been closely linked with betel leaf. For Indonesian people definitely 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 betel leaves to clean teeth. Some areas use betel leaf as a means of ritual, and of course a betel leaf is a medicinal plant which is very popular.

Plant Description

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.

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

Usefulness

Cough
Sprue
Bronchitis
Pimple
Whitish
Toothache because of potholes (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

Warning

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

Example Use of Betel for Multiple Diseases

Betel can be used singly or in combination with other medicinal plants. Here are some examples of the use of betel nut:

Cough
Boil as many as 15 pieces of betel leaf with three glasses of water until the remaining 3/4-nya, drink the concoction mixed with honey.

Alternative:
Five pieces of betel leaf
Cloves, cardamom, cubeb, each with 11 seeds
Cinnamon 1 finger hand
Method:
All the material after washing boiled with 2 cups of water to stay 1 ½ cups water and strain Lift
Drinking rules:
Children age 1 s.d. 3 years 3 times a day 1 tablespoon.
Children age 4 s.d. Five years three times a day 3 tablespoons
Children age 6 s.d. 11 years 3 times a day 5 tablespoons
Adult three times a day


Bad breath and tooth decay
Take one betel leaves, then wash out and chew the leaves. Chew up a few minutes in the mouth, then diludahkan. Do it 2-3 times a day.
Alternative: 5-6 boiled betel leaves with 2 cups water to boiling. Cool and filter and after that to gargle-gargle every morning and evening.

Bronchitis
Take seven pieces of betel leaves and rock sugar to taste, then boiled in two cups of water up to the remaining one glass, then drink a day 3 X 1 / 3 cup.

Swollen gums / mouth
Take 5 or 6 l embar betel leaves, boiled with 3 cups water to boiling. Remove and strain, salt. Then use the mouthwash-gargle three times daily.

Eliminates body odor
Take five pieces of betel leaves, boiled in two cups of water up into a glass, drank during the day.

Dental bleeding gums after tooth extraction
Take 10 pieces of betel leaves, washed and boiled with 5 cups of water until boiling. Remove and strain. Furthermore, gargle with the mixture once every one hour.
This herb also can eliminate bad breath caused by tooth decay.

Burn
Take fresh betel leaf, and then wring the water, add a little honey, and provide information on the place burns

Acne drug
Take 7-10 betel leaves, then mashed until smooth, brewed with two glasses of hot water. The water used to wash face with acne. Do it 2-3 times a day.

Leucorrhoea and vaginal itching
Boil 10 pieces of betel leaf with 2.5 liters of water, use water to wash her vagina while still warm water conditions.
While for the potion to drink, usually combined with cat whiskers, turmeric, footprint liman or bitter.

Reducing the excessive production of breast milk
Take a few pieces of betel leaf, spread with coconut oil, warmed on the fire to become wilted, warm stick around a swollen breast.

Other things About Betel Leaf
Research in India, as quoted included in the Indian Journal of Pharmacology, mentions betel leaf can increase male fertility. This study using rats as test. Rats given a betel leaf extract orally, and in fact increased doses cause a decrease in the number of sperm in mice.