Betel is native to Indonesia's growing vines or leaning on another tree. Betel is used as a medicinal plant (fitofarmaka) and was instrumental in the life and various ceremonial Malay.
The characteristics of the betel plant vines can reach a height of 15 m. Betel stems greenish brown, round, segmented and is the root of the exit. The leaves are heart-shaped sole, pointy, grow alternately, stemmed, and remove the smell that odor when crushed. Length of 5-8 cm and 2-5 cm wide. Compound flowers are leaf-shaped ears and patron ± 1 mm elliptical. In males grains around 1.5 to 3 cm in length and there are two short stamens being on female heads of approximately 1.5 to 6 cm in length where there is the stigma of three to five pieces of white and yellow-green. The fruit is round grayish green. Roots riding, round and golden brown.
Betel leaf oil contains fly (betIephenol), sesquiterpene, starch, diatase, sugar and tannin substances that have the power and kavikol deadly germs, antioxidants and fungicides, anti-fungal.
Its efficacy eliminate body odor caused by bacteria and fungi, heal the wounds of the skin, gastrointestinal, saliva shed, hemostatic, and stop the bleeding. One is used to treat nosebleeds, way is to take two pieces of betel leaf and then wash and then rolled, enter into a nostril, would immediately stop the blood flow.
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