- Description of plant : These vines can reach a height of 15 m. Betel greenish brown stems, round, segmented and is the root of the discharge. A single heart-shaped leaves, pointed, grow alternately, stemmed, and the smell of odor when crushed. Length is about 5-8 cm and 2-5 cm wide. Compound interest ear-shaped leaves and are protective of ± 1 mm ellipse. In males the length of the grains is about 1.5 to 3 cm and there are two short stamens in the ear length of females is about 1.5 - 6 cm where there is a stigma 04:57 pieces of green and yellowish white. The fruit is a round fruit glaucous Bunni. The root of riding, round and golden brown.
- Ingredients and benefits : The essential oil of betel leaf oil contains fly (betIephenol), seskuiterpen, starch, diatase, sugar and tannic substances and chavicol which has the power of deadly germs, antioksidasi and fungicides, anti-fungal. Betel efficacious eliminate body odor caused by bacteria and fungi. Betel leaf is also restrain bleeding, heal wounds on the skin, and indigestion. It has also crimped, eliminates phlegm, saliva warehouse, hemostatic, and stop the bleeding.
- Can treat : Cough, Thrush, Bronchitis, Acne, Vaginal discharge in women, Cavities, tooth pain, dengue fever, bad breath odor, irregular menstruation, asthma, sore throat, swollen gums.
- Use of Outer : Eczema, burning, ulceration (pyodermi), Ringworm foot, ulcer, nosebleeds, eye pain, bleeding gums, reduce milk production, Eliminate itching.
- As drug tadisional : Usually for drugs nose bleed (nosebleeds). The trick, 2 fresh betel leaves, washed, and then rolled up and inserted into nostrils (not too deep).
- Warning : Betel chewing and in too many vulnerable for a long time can cause mouth and throat cancer squamous cell carcinoma.
Efficacy of betel leaf in curing leucorrhoea been tested clinically. Betel leaf has a more significant efficacy compared with placebo. This test involved 40 patients with vaginal discharge are not pregnant, suffering from diabetes mellitus, and kidney or liver disease. Twenty of them had their betel leaf, while the rest were given placebo. Both the betel leaf or placebo placed in the vagina before the patient slept for seven days. Of the 40 patients, 22 people get a re-examination, each of which 11 received placebo and betel leaf. The test results show approximately 90.9% of patients who use betel leaf can be cured, whereas in the placebo group only 54.5% are given.
Other studies on the benefits to utilizing waste oil of betel leaf, which can produce antioxidants. Extracts of these antioxidants for this is still imported. This research has the potential to reduce the import of antioxidants. In addition, the resulting emulsion product in this study can also be utilized for the beauty industry.
Meanwhile, in India there is a research report that said the betel leaves affect male fertility, as reported by the Indian Journal of Pharmacology. Effect of betel leaf against male fertility was tested in mice. Allegedly, the provision of betel leaf extract containing alcohol orally in mice have antifertility effects. According to a report that increasing the dose of the extract resulted in a decreased sperm count in mice. In India, research on betel leaf is not just for male fertility only. There, the leaves have been studied to treat asthma, bronchitis, rheumatism, leprosy, and toothache, even for erectile dysfunction.
Efficacy and benefits of prescription Betel leaf :
Betel leaf is useful for treating various diseases. Here is a recipe from the Medicinal Plant Garden Karyasari on how to use betel leaf for health.
- To treat cough, prepare 15 pieces of betel leaf and three glasses of water. Rinse leaves and boil until the remaining 3 / 4 (from 3 cups earlier). Furthermore, drinking water was boiled with honey.
- To treat bronchitis, poached seven betel leaves that have been washed clean with a piece of rock sugar in two cups of water. Wait until the remaining into a glass. Drink three times a day each third of the glass.
- To eliminate body odor, take five pieces of betel leaves and boiled in two cups of water. Wait until the remaining into a glass. Drinking in the daytime.
- To treat burns, take a leaf to taste and wash clean. Squeeze the water and add a little honey. Then apply on the burns.
- To treat a nosebleed, prepare a betel leaf is a bit younger, then crushed and roll. Use to plug a bloody nose.
- To treat boils, take a taste of betel leaves and wash clean. After that grind into powder and applied to ulcers and surrounding areas. Bandage and change the bandage twice a day earlier.
- To treat eye itching and red eyes. Prepare 5-6 young and fresh betel leaves and then boiled with a glass of water to boiling. Wait until cool and use to wash the eye with a glass eye wash three times a day until healed.
- To treat ulceration and itching of the skin. Boil 20 pieces of betel leaves to boiling. Use boiled water is still warm for washing wounds and itching.
- To Stop Bleeding Gums. Boil four betel leaves in two cups of water. Use it to gargle.
- To treat Thrush. Take 1-2 betel leaves and wash clean. Pulverized and chewed up the trash when finished.
- To get rid of bad breath. Prepare a 2-4 betel leaves, wash and wring it out. Brewed with hot water and use to gargle.
- To treat Acne. Take 7-10 betel leaves, washed and finely ground. Brewed with two glasses of hot water. Use water to wash your face. Do it 2-3 times a day.
- To treat vaginal discharge. Boil 10 betel leaves are washed in 2.5 liters of water. Use boiled water is still warm to wash the vagina.
- To Reduce Breast swelling. Take a few leaves, washed and anointed with oil palm. Then warm over low heat until wilted. Then stick to the breast are swollen while still warm.
