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Betel is a medicinal plant which is very beneficial. He containing antiseptic substances in all its parts. The leaves are widely used to treat a nosebleed, red eyes, discharge, making a loud voice, and many more, including erectile dysfunction.
Efficacy of betel leaf has been known and tested products clinical. Until now, research on this plant continues developed.
Betel leaf has been known for centuries by our ancestors as efficacious medicinal plants. Not only known as medicinal plants, plant Latin name Piper betle lynn also has a special place in events customary in some parts of Indonesia.
In Lampung, there is a dance named penggung cambai. Penggung means hold, while cambai betel. This dance describes the association order young people who uphold traditions. Betel leaf in this dance describe the symbol of respect.
In many other traditional events, betel leaves are often served to welcome guest. In Java, betel leaves are used in traditional ceremonies marriage.
High Antiseptic Substances
Traditionally, plants originating from India, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia is used to overcome the body and mouth odor, mouth sores, nosebleeds, itching and ulceration, and treat vaginal discharge in women. This is because medicinal plants has been known since 600 BC It contains a substance antiseptics that kill germs. The content of phenol in the nature antiseptic five times more effective than with ordinary phenol.
In Chinese pharmacology, betel known as a plant that has warm and spicy nature. Traditionally they use betel leaf to shed the fart, stop coughing, reduce inflammation, and relieve itching. In traditional Indian medicine, known betel leaf as a warm aromatic substances, are antiseptic, and even improve sex drive.
With antiseptic properties, betel nut is often used to heal foot sores because it contains a styptic for holding bleeding and vulnerary, which heal the wounds of the skin. Can also chewed to improve the quality of sound on singers.
From the research, as quoted in the book of medicinal plants Medicinal Plant Garden publications Karyasari also disclosed that betel containing arecoline in all parts of the plant. This substance is useful for stimulates the central nervous and thinking power, increasing the peristaltic movements, relieve snoring. In the leaves contained eugenol was able to prevent premature ejaculation, eradicate the fungus Candida albicans, and are analgesic (Relieve pain). There is also the content of tannin in the leaves beneficial to reduce the secretion of fluid in the vagina, protecting liver function, and prevent diarrhea.
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Efficacy of betel leaf in curing leucorrhoea ever tested clinical. This is revealed by Amir Sharif from the Section of Pharmacology University Indonesia. He said that betel leaves have a more meaningful efficacy compared with placebo.
The tests involved 40 patients with vaginal discharge that is not medium
pregnant, suffering from diabetes mellitus, and kidney or liver disease. Two twenty of them get betel leaves, while the rest were given placebo. Both the betel leaf or a placebo was given before the patient's vagina sleep for seven days.
Of the 40 patients, 22 people get re-examination, respectively 11 got a placebo and betel leaf. The results of this test proves approximately 90.9 percent of patients who have otherwise betel leaf cured, while in the group given placebo only 54.5 percent.
Other studies about the benefits of betel conducted at IPB Bogor. Ir. Nuri Andarwulan, Msi and friends of the Faculty of Agricultural Technology IPB conduct research to utilize waste for betel leaf volatile oil produce antioxidants. Extracts of these antioxidants for this still imported.
This research has the potential to reduce the import value of antioxidants. In addition, emulsion product produced in this study also can be used for the beauty industry.
Meanwhile, in India there is a research report that said leaf betel affect male fertility, as reported by the Indian Journal of Pharmacology. Effect of betel leaf on male fertility was tested on rats.
Allegedly, the provision of betel leaf extract containing alcohol Oral antifertility effects in rats have. According to the report of increasing doses of extract caused the decline in sperm counts in rats.
In India, research on betel leaves is not only to male fertility only. There, the leaves are already being studied to treat asthma, bronchitis, rheumatism, leprosy, and toothache, even for erectile dysfunction. Unfortunately, not many similar research in Indonesia.
Betel leaf Recipes
Betel leaves are useful for treating various diseases. Here This recipes from the Medicinal Plant Garden Karyasari about how the use of betel leaf for health.
1. Cough
Prepare 15 pieces of betel leaf and three glasses of water. Rinse leaves and boiled until the remaining three-quarters into pieces. Drink with honey.
2. Bronchitis
Boil seven betel leaves which had been washed with piece of rock sugar in two cups water. Wait until the remaining become one glass. Drink three times a day each third of the glass.
3. Eliminate body odor
Take five betel leaves and boil in two cups of water. Wait until the remaining into a glass. Drinking in the afternoon.
4. Burn
Take a taste of betel leaves and wash clean. Squeeze the water and add a little honey. Put into place burns.
5. Nosebleed
Prepare one betel leaves a rather young, and then crushed and roll. Use it to clog a bloody nose.
6. Ulcer
Take a taste of betel leaves and wash clean. Afterwards minced until smooth and smeared on boils and surroundings. Balut and replace two times a day.
7. Itchy and Red Eye
Provide 5-6 young and fresh betel leaf with a glass of boiled water to boiling. Wait until cool and use to wash the eye with glass eye wash three times a day until healed.
8. Ulceration and Itchy-Itchy
Boil 20 pieces of betel leaf to a boil. Use the cooking water which still warm to wash sores and itching.
9. Stopping Bleeding Gums
Boil four betel leaves in two cups of water. Use to gargling.
10. Sprue
Take 1-2 pieces of betel leaf and then wash clean. Chew until pulverized and dispose of the waste upon completion.
11. Eliminate Mouth Odor
Prepare 2-4 betel leaves, wash and squeeze. Brewed with then use hot water to rinse.
12. Pimple
Take 7-10 betel leaves, wash and finely mashed. Brewed with two glasses of hot water. Use water to wash your face. Perform 2-3 times a day.
13. Whitish
Boil 10 betel leaves which had been washed in 2.5 liters of water. Use the cooking water is still warm to wash the vagina.
14. Breastfeeding Reduces Excess
Take a few betel leaves, wash and basting with oil coconut. Then heat over a fire until wilted. Stick around swollen breasts while still warm.
