Be Healthy Make We Happy

Dental health is closely related with the traditional betel leaf. For Indonesia certainly know that the betel leaf has a lot of property especially in the field of dental and oral health.

Benefits for dental betel leaves no doubt that until now, and grandfather and grandmother are still using a betel leaf to clean teeth. Some use the area as a betel leaf in the ritual, and of course is a betel leaf plants that are very popular drugs.

Plant Description

Plant this vine can reach 15 meters high Betel stem greenness brown, rounded shape, beruas and is the root of the discharge. Leaves a single heart-shaped, spired, grow criss-cross, bertangkai, and remove the smell of tasty when diremas. Length of about 5 - 8 cm wide and 2 - 5 cm. Ear-shaped compound interest and there is a patron leaves ± 1 mm elliptical. In the male ear length of 1.5 - 3 cm, and there are two stamen that are short on female fascicle length of 1.5 - 6 cm where the head ovary fruit three to five white and green colors. Fruit-shaped fruit buni rounded green grayish. Root steep, rounded and brown colors.

Gynecology and Benefits

Oil atsiri of betel leaves contain oil fly (betIephenol), seskuiterpen, starch, diatase, sugar and oxygen samak and chavicol has power off the bacteria, and antioksidasi fungicide, anti-fungus. Betel nutritious eliminate body odor caused bacteria and fungus. Betel leaves are also holding bleeding, heal wounds on the skin, and digestive disturbances channel. It also can be mengerutkan, removing the phlegm, saliva cause to fall, hemostatik, and stop the bleeding.

Usefulness

Cough
Sariawan
Bronchitis
Whelk
Keputihan
Toothache because perforated (leaves)
Scarlatina
Mouth odor
Menstruation does not regularly
Asma
Sore throat (leaves and oil)
Gumboil (getahnya)

Use of Foreign

Eczema
Burns
Ulceration (pyodermi)
Scabies legs
Blain
Nosebleed
Eye pain
Gum bleeding
Reducing the production of breastmilk
The itch

Description

Usually for drugs nose bleed, use 2 pieces of fresh leaves Piper betle, washed, digulung then inserted in the nose Iubang.

Warning

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