... # Function and Benefits of Areca # ...
Hi all steem friends, apakabar on this week, may steem friends in healthy condition walafiat.
Oh yes steem friend on my post this time I want to tell you about the areca nut coincidently my father's gardening there are some areca trees and I happened to have a photo with Mobile oppo 5 for me to make a post on this Sunday.
Indonesia as a country that has a lot of areca nut and make this tree as one of export material with purpose, such as:
- Country of India
- State of Pakistan
- Country Bangladesh
- Country of Nepal
The exported beans are usually in dry conditions can form a whole seed or Pinang already in the split.
Incidentally at my house while filling the empty time by splitting or hanging the areca nut ...
Photo of pinang tree whose fruit is still green and still young.
Photo of pinang tree whose fruit is yellow and ripe
Photo Pinang fruit that has been ripe and has fallen from the tree
Photo pinang fruit that has been ripe and has fallen from the tree and can also be plucked by climbing
Photo of betel nut that has been split and dried, to be easy when gouging seed
and this is the result of betel that has been split and then dried 2 or 3 days under the sun to dry and get a good quality
Photo and this is another way that is direct sunning pinang that is ripe until completely dry for easy to peel take the seeds
Photo and such is the result and then dried in the sun 3 or 4 days to get a good quality and the selling price is high / expensive
In addition to being a decorative midrib or an old betel leaf will usually fall and dry the midrib can be used for a pedestal or toy children by sitting in the midrib and then pull the petiole to move. This stem can also be used as the basic material of various woven arts but must be done though first.
At a glance, the areca tree has the same shape as the coconut tree, but when looked carefully it looks very different. Pinang is a kind of palm plant, has a high stem until it can reach a height of 25 m the trunk is slim and straight up.
The leaves are above the base of the stem is similar to the coconut tree but the difference is shorter stalks of coconut leaves and have different leaves from the coconut course. In addition, this tree also has fruit. The areca nut grows similar to the coconut fruit it will appear on the tree with roots similar to the coconut fruit but the size of the betel nut is smaller than the coconut. This tree can grow in tropical environments.
Photo of pinang tree
Photo of coconut trees
Pinang tree is very popular if on August 17 which coincides with Indonesia's independence day usually people take a tree trunk to be made a means for the race that is climbing pinang is a race that uses a tree trunk Pinang smeared with oil and then people attempt to climb the areca nut slippery to take the prize over the top of the stem.
Photo Climbing Pinang
Some people choose to use bamboo instead of areca nut, but the use of bamboo is very riskkan because the bamboo stem must have segment segment and it can cause injury to the participants climbing pinang, better choice of pinang stem because the stem is no segment and smooth and in general this pinang tree made smooth by removing the outer skin.
Pinang is also often in use by the community as the gutters how to remove the middle of the pinang and place the appropriate place be a water gutter made of pinang.
Besides betel fruit itself is as one of the ingredients to make betel nut, this betel nut has been known since ancient times by our ancestors. Seeing its functions is whether areca nut has health benefits there is because in betel nut there are compounds called arecaidine, arecolidine, guvacoline, guracine and others here are the various benefits of betel nut:
Benefits of Pinang For Humans
- Overcome dry mouth
- Strengthens teeth and gums
- Anthelmintic
- Treating wounded skin
- A blind eye
- Tighten the vagina
- Increase vitality
Well the steem friends, apparently in addition to the benefits of betel fruit there are side effects also lho ....
But keep in mind to consume the betel nut must be stopped immediately if the illness has been healed. Because in believe this fruit has poison in it. Excessive consumption will be harmful to the body in believing these contents can make people have cancer. In addition to that betel activity using betel fruit in it if excessive will cause anemia against the perpetrator, therefore the activity of betel must be kept away by pregnant women. In addition, side effects include worsening the condition of people who have high blood pressure or low and make the heart rate is not irregular. Arekaina and arekolina content is what makes areca have poison in it and both of these compounds are very akditif.
In the country itself areca itself is also in though as a basic ingredient to make snack foods such as candy. Pinang fruit if ripe red or yellow, the green of betel nut means not yet ripe. The shape of the fruit itself oval like egg or coconut but small. In addition to Indonesia as a country sender of betel nut this other country like Malaysia and Thailand also sell to other country.
In addition to being a medicine for its own areca nuts in planting to make ornamental trees. Of course to be an ornamental tree with a large size is usually planted in parallel straight in the yard because this tree including a strong tree to grow and this plant can also be utilized from the stem until the fruit becomes not in vain if the planting of betel tree in made as an ornamental tree on the home page as well as inside the house.