Can betel nut slices make tea, and can you drink tea after eating betel nut?

Betel nut can be soaked in water and drunk.

Areca nut is a warm and humid positive plant, which likes high temperature, abundant rainfall and humid climate environment. It is commonly found in the secondary forests of tropical monsoon forests at the bottom of low valleys, at the foot of ridges, at the foot of slopes and by plains and streams, and also grows in patches of humus-rich valleys, ridges, sparse forests and slightly acidic to neutral sandy loam barren mountain wilderness.

Mainly distributed between north and south latitude 28 °, the most suitable temperature is 10-36, the minimum temperature is not less than 10, the maximum temperature is not higher than 40, the altitude is 0-1000 meters, and the annual rainfall is 1700-2000 mm.

Eating betel nut can drink tea, and food restraint does not exist. The medical community believes that regular chewing of betel nut will cause mouth ulcers, gingival degeneration, submucosal fibrosis, and then lead to oral cancer, medical studies have found that chewing betel nut doubles the risk of oral cancer, betel nut in betel nut and arecine are potentially carcinogenic, betel nut flowers, vines contain carcinogens.

A variety of active ingredients and metabolites in areca nut are cytotoxic, genotoxic and even directly carcinogenic, including areca nut alkaloids, areca nut tannins, areca nut-specific nitrosamines and reactive oxygen species. In the United States and Japan, betel nut extract has been used in experiments and found to cause cancer in rodents.

Betel nut flakes are betel nuts that have been processed.

Areca nut is an evergreen tree with erect stems, arbor-like, more than 10 meters high, up to 30 meters, with obvious annular leaf marks, monoecious, inflorescences multi-branched, ovary oblong, fruit oblong or ovate, seeds ovate, flowering and fruiting period from March to April.

Areca nut is native to Malaysia, and is mainly distributed in tropical areas such as Yunnan, Hainan and Taiwan. It is widely cultivated in tropical Asia.

Areca nut is an important Chinese medicinal material, and some ethnic minorities in the south still use the fruit as a chewing hobby.

1. Betel nut can be soaked in water and drunk. Betel nut tea can soothe an inflamed throat and is extremely helpful for hoarseness or excessive loss of voice with your voice.

2During the period of quitting smoking, you can also use betel nut to soak water instead of tea.

3. From traditional Chinese medicine, we learned that betel nut has the effect of strengthening the spleen, appetizing, helping digestion and detoxification.

4. Betel nut has the effect of improving qi and water, killing insects and eliminating accumulation. It is mainly used for the treatment of insect accumulation, food accumulation, abdominal distension and pain, diarrhea and dysentery, malaria, edema, spleen deficiency and loose stools, and those with qi stagnation or food stagnation and abdominal distension are all suitable. However, betel nut is a thing that breaks the qi and consumes the air, which is suitable for people with strong bodies to eat for a short time, if it is not cured, it is useless to take it.