Pinang For Drug Injuries Pinang vulnerary

Plants Pinang (Areca catechu L.) has been widely used by people of Indonesia in the past, especially fruit that is used for a mixture of betel nut. People who eat betel nuts are believed to have strong teeth despite advanced age.
Nut crops easily grown in Indonesia. These plants are usually planted in the yard, garden, or grow on the riverbank. The form is beautiful with trees 10-30 feet high are suitable for decoration. No wonder if in certain streets, lined the plant is widely grown. In addition to the beauty of the city, could also serve to greening.
Cultivation is done by planting the seeds that have been cooked enough. Previous seed was sown and planted in plastic (poly). While still small, nut plants can be used as an ornamental in the house. When the trunk is larger, should be planted outdoors.
Areca has a different name in some areas. In West Java, people call jambe, arrest or wohan. In Sumatra, this plant has many names. Anyone know him as a nut, pineng, pineung, Mayang rod, rod blocks, pining stem, stem nut, and boni.
Good seeds, fruit, or sabutnya can be used, particularly for treatment. Treatment with the fruit of this plant is already quite well known since ancient times.
Nut seeds can be to treat beriberi, worms, flatulence, wounds, diarrhea, and coughing up phlegm. While the leaves can to increase appetite and treat back pain. Areca nut tree leaves are also widely used to pack food. While sabutnya can be used to cure beri-beri, constipation (difficult bowel movements), and indigestion.
Young betel nuts can be used to treat wounds caused by accidents (collision, friction, puncture, cut or burned). The trick, the meat of young betel nuts until finely ground, then placed on the injured body part.
Young betel nut chewing can also direct and the water is swallowed. This is to treat the blood in the urine. While the young nut juice can be used as a medicine outside the myopic eye disease.
Children who suffer from intestinal worms can be cured by this plant. How, to prepare 30 grams of nut and seed powder boiled with 2 cups water to boil. Water is then left to seethe until cool and then filtered. This water is then drunk in patients with intestinal worms at once before breakfast.


Part nut commonly used: seeds, leaves, coir.
USE:Seeds (Binglang):- Worms: taeniasis, fasciolopsiasis.- Abdominal bloating due to indigestion.- Swelling due to fluid retention (edema).- Pain full in the chest.- Luka.- Cough with phlegm.- Diarrhea.- Late menstruation, vaginal discharge.- Beriberi, edema. Malaria.- Minimize the pupils (miosis) in glaucoma.
Leaves:- No appetite.- Back pain (lumbago).
Fiber:- Indigestion (dyspepsia).- Constipation.- Edema and beriberi.
HOW TO USE:1. Wormy:

    * 30 g of seed nut powder with 2 cups boiling water, boil slowly seiama 1 hour. After chilling filtered, drinks well before breakfast.

2. Luka: finely ground seeds, for use on wounds.
3. Scabies:

    * Finely ground nut seeds, add a little water whiting until a dough like mush. Used to polish the body mange.

4. Ulceration:

    * Areca, gambier, whiting, each for lizard eggs, tobacco by the thumb and a fresh betel leaves. The material is mixed with finely ground ialu. Smear on a scab that has been cleaned.

5. Dysentery:

    * Fruit nut-colored light yellow washed and soaked in 1 cup of water for several hours. Drinking water immersion nut.

6. Clean and strengthen teeth and gums:

    * Nut seeds thinly sliced. Chew every day for several minutes, then the waste is disposed.

7. Back pain:

    * Leaves sufficiently washed, and then finely ground. Add coconut oil to taste, reheat briefly over low heat. Warm used to compress the waist the sick.

8. Diphtheria:

    * 1 whole dried finely ground nut seeds, pour boiling water with 3 / 4 cup hot water and 1 tablespoon of honey. After the cold is used to rinse his mouth in the throat for 2-3 minutes, then discarded.
    * Do it 3 times a day.

Side effects:Alkaloid compounds contained in fruit is quite dangerous for the system requirements. Common are nausea and vomiting (20-30%), abdominal pain, dizziness and nervousness. To reduce the incidence of vomiting, drink a decoction of the drug after it has cooled. Rare side effects are stomach ulcers are accompanied by vomiting blood.
Signs of overdose: A lot of salivation (qalivation), vomiting, drowsiness and seizures. Pengobalan: Wash the hull with a solution of potassium permanganate and atropine injection. To reduce its toxic effects, use of areca seed that should have been drained, or better yet if the beans dry nut boiled before drinking. The habit of chewing areca seed, can increase the incidence of cancer-mucosa cheek (buccal cancer).