Betel nut can help us to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. If there is a problem of breath, eating betel nut can also achieve good therapeutic effect. But too much betel nut may lead to oral cancer. Summarize the advantages and disadvantages of betel nut.
Benefits:
At the beginning of the discovery, areca nut was not chewed but used as medicine. It had the functions of dispelling phlegm and cough, eliminating food and sobering up wine, relieving vomiting with broad chest, and expelling insects. After chewing betel nut, people often feel excited, blushing, sweating slightly, just like drinking alcohol. In the past, people living in high mountains often used to eat betel nuts to keep out the cold and eliminate fatigue after intense labor.
Disadvantages:
1. The juice of betel nut is purple red. Chewing betel nut for a long time will make people's teeth black. After chewing areca nut, spit the residue on the ground, with red spots, like blood stains, affecting public health.
2. Contain carcinogenic alkaloids. Qiu Zhanxian, chief of the first section of Taipei Health Bureau, said that between 88% and 92% of the oral cancer patients in Taipei were caused by chewing betel nut.
3. Pregnant women chew betel nut too much, which may cause abortion
It's also very beneficial for us to eat less betel. It can effectively help us to treat our own burning, reduce the burden of gastrointestinal digestion, and treat our own stomach fire by taking betel nut.